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Hebrew Daily
Papers Decl
Declining in Israel
By MOSHE EON
demand that in case of reduction
Jewish News Special
of staff in Davar, the first to be
Israel Correspondent
dismissed should be the new jour-
TEL AVIV—A few years ago nalists of Lamerhay. They threat-
there were 12 Hebrew dailies in en not to let these journalists work
Israel, one Yiddish newspaper, in Davar until all outstanding mat-
eight daily newspapers in fokeign ters are settled and until the Labor
languages, and two evening papers. party will guarantee the budget of
Most of the 12 daily papers were Davar and the present positions of
party-subsidized organs.
its members.
In the course of a few years,
Many of the 148 members of
four party organs closed—Raboker Lamerhav (printers, journalists
(General Zionists), Herut (Revi- and clerks) will be jobless. There
sionists), Hakol (Extreme Orthodox is a danger that other political
in Jerusalem) and Kol Ha'am parties in Israel which publish
(Communist). After the formation dailies, and pay their deficits,
of an alignment between the Lib- will come to the conclusion that
eral Party and Herut, a new daily. they can exist without their own
Hayom, was published as the organ newspapers They might also
of Gahal, but its publication stop- close their dailies and publish
ped after four years. Now_a good their news as advertisements in
and well-edited daily, Lamerhav, other dailies, which is much
the organ of Kibutz Hameuhad and cheaper. They know that Ha'aretz
Ahdut Avoda, is being closed after and the two evening papers,
1 6 years of existence and a circula-
Ma'ariv and Yediot Ahadonot
tion of 15,000. The newspaper had are read by hundreds of thou-
a yearly deficit of approximately sands, whereas their dailies are
all a million Israeli pounds, but hardy read by their own party
a s long as the Ahdut Avoda Party members.
h ad not been united with Mapai, it
During the time when five He-
preserved its own party organ. brew dailies were closed, the Yid-
Now, a few years after the estab- dish daily Letzte Nayes
carried on
li shment of the Maarakh (align- without any support. The
same
ment between Mapai and Ahdut applies to several - dailies in foreign
A voda), the leadership of Ahdut languages, like the English, Ro-
A voda decided to close Lamerhav manian, Polish, Hungarian and
a nd arrange a merger with the German, which have no deficits.
d ally of Histadrut, Davar.
Also a small dully in Bulgarian is
It turned out that such a mer- holding its own without danger of
ger was not easy. Davar has closing down
recently undergone
Lamerhav, which was founded
The chief editor, Yehuda 16 years ago, tried not to keep to
Godhelf, retired on reaching a narrow party line. Its first editor
pensionable age, and Mrs. Hans was Abraham Tarshisb, followed
Zemer was appointed chief edi- by the former Cabinet Member,
tor. It was the first case in the Moshe Carmel. During the last
history of the Hebrew press in years, David Pedezur, a young
Israel that a woman attained journalist, took over this function.
such a position. Rana Zemer has All the editors made every effort
surrounded herself with a group to maintain a high standard for the
of young journalists who have
changed the graphic layout of
the newspaper and made a lively
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daily out of It, with short articles,
hot news, sensations, color. A
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the circulation of Davar.
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But it quickly turned out that
th e Israeli people do not.like party
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or gans and prefer the independent,
popular evening papers — Maariv
a nd Yediot Aharonot. Their men-
la tion is over 250,000 daily and over
300,000 on Fridays. The new experi-
m ents of Davar did not help to
"e nlist new readers. The only morn-
in g daily in Israel which has no
d eficit and did not lose readers, is
th e independent newspaper Ha'-
aretz. All the other dailies, which
ar e party organs, incurred big de-
fi cits. The two Histadrut organs,
D avar and Amer, have a monthly
d elicit of 250,000 Israeli pounds.
0 ther party organs like Al Hamish-
m ar, Hatzofe, Hamodia and Sha-
a rim, have smaller deficits.
Lamerhav should have termi-
na ted its publication on Nov. 13,
bu t as differences with Davar are
CO ntinuing, there may be a delay.
Th e subscribers of the newspaper
ar e to go over to Davar. It turned
ou t that the journalists of Davar
ar e not happy about the merger.
Th ey say that Davar is facing
fin ancial difficulties and cannot
Pa y the wages to its employees.
No w it has to absorb 18 journalists
an d 12 administrative employees
fro m Lamerhav, which will make
the situation more difficult. The
lea ders of Mapai and Ahdut Avoda
fac e difficulties in finding a solu-
do n to this problem. Golda Meir,
Push as Sapir, Yigal Allon, Yitzhak
Be n-Aharon and Shimon Peres
ha ye already intervened. Peres
de manded that if Ahdut Avoda
wo uld appoint the former editor
of Lamerhav, Pedezur, as vice-
edi tor of Davar, Raft also would
cia Im such an appointment. Ahdut
Av oda leaders declared that the
sec retary of Davar (Ohad, who
has in the meantime resigned from
this position in protest against the
mer ger), the chairman of the jour-
na lists' committee and other mem-
bens of the editorial board of
Da var are members of Rafi.
Th e journalists of Davar put for-
wa rd some demands. They say
the y cannot absorb 18 additional
jo urnalists. They maintain-that the
journalists of Lamerhav cannot fill
th e same positions in Davar. They
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- daily and among its contributors
were such known writers as Ha-
noch Bartov, Hahn Gun and
Aharon Meged.
A leader of Ahdut Avoda told
me that if he would have known in
advance of the difficulties which
the merger with Davar faces, he
would have fought in Kibuts Ha-
meuhad and within his party for
the continuation of the daily. The
members of Lamerhav are today
in a difficult situation. It is not
easy to start work in Davar in
such an unwelcome atmosphere.
Premier Golda Meir will have
to intervene personally to settle
the differences. She, Allon, Sapir,
Ben-Aharon and other party lead-
ers demand that Davar carry out
the agreement and absorb the 30
Members of Lamerhay.
There is no doubt that the inde-
pendent morning daily, Ha'aretz,
and the two evening papers will
profit from the closing of Lamer-
hay. It is hard to assume that the
members of Kibutz Hameuhad and
Ahdut Avoda, who have up to now
read Lamerhav, will agree auto-
matically to transfer their sub-
scriptions to Davar. Certainly,
some will prefer to read the inde-
pendent dailies.
The conduct of men depends on
temperament, not upon a bunch of
musty maxims. — Benjamin Dis-
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