''Herut'' ( he, חרות, lit. ''Freedom'') was the name of four newspapers published in Palestine and later

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. The first was established in

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during the

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, two were journals of the

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, whilst the fourth was owned by the

Herut Herut ( he, חֵרוּת, ''Freedom'') was the major conservative nationalist political party in Israel from 1948 until its formal merger into Likud in 1988. It was an adherent of Revisionist Zionism. History Herut was founded by Menachem Begin ...

political party founded by former Irgun members.

Jerusalem newspaper

In 1909 a weekly newspaper by the name of ''Ha-Herut'' was established in 1909 by Avraham Elmalih, later a member of the

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for the

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party. Initially edited by Haim Ben-Atar, it was considered to be the mouthpiece of the city's

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community.The Israeli Press
Jewish Virtual Library It became a daily newspaper in 1912, and was edited by Elmalih between 1914 and 1919, being the only Hebrew newspaper to appear regularly during

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Irgun newspaper

Herut was established as the journal of the Irgun in 1942, with its first edition published on 10 March that year. It was published at least once a month on four pages, and was sent by mail to private addresses, as well as being pasted on walls in public areas. The paper took a Revisionist slant on problems in the

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, but also included coded messages to members of the Irgun underground. For that reason, the British authorities followed the newspaper closely, with a full English translation sent to the

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in November 1943. The ninety-ninth and last edition of the paper was published on 10 June 1948, though publication of a separate ''Herut'' journal continued in Jerusalem during June and July that year, with the city cut off from the rest of the country by the

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and the local Irgun not having been absorbed into the

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Herut daily

In 1948 a new daily newspaper associated with the

party (with which it shared its name) was launched by former journalists of '' HaMashkif'', the

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-affiliated newspaper, including Izik Ramba, who was its editor from 1957 onwards. Its journalists included Yoel Marcus, Dan Margalit,

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, Shlomo Nakdimon, Ze'ev Galili, Amos Keinan,

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, Eliyahu Matza, Dan Levin, Aryeh Naor and

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. Chief editors included

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, a Herut Knesset member.Shmuel Merlin
Knesset website In 1965 the Herut party allied with the

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. The Herut newspaper was merged with the ''

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'' newspaper owned by the

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faction of the Liberal Party, to form '' HaYom'', which ceased publication four years later.

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