''HaBoker'' () was a

Hebrew-language Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a first language until ...

daily newspaper in

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and

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

associated with the

General Zionists The General Zionists () were a centrist Zionist movement and a political party in Israel. The General Zionists supported the leadership of Chaim Weizmann and their views were largely colored by central European culture. The party was considered ...

History

The paper was established in 1935 by the right-wing of the

,The Israeli Press
Jewish Virtual Library with the first edition published on 11 October that year. Its first editor, Samuel Perl, left soon after the newspaper's founding, and was replaced by Joseph Heftman and

Peretz Bernstein Peretz Bernstein (; 12 June 1890 – 21 March 1971) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence. Biography Bernstein was born Shlomo Fritz Bernstein in Meiningen in the Ge ...

, one of the signatories of the

Israeli declaration of independence The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (), was proclaimed on 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar 5708), at the end of the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, civil war phase and ...

, who held the post until 1946.Peretz (Fritz) Bernstein
Knesset website Its journalists included Yosef Tamir, a secretary of the General Zionists, and Herzl Vardi, another signatory of the declaration of independence. The paper's circulation fell following independence, from 13,500 in 1950 to 4,000-4,500 in 1965.Naor,
"HaBoker" A centrish newspaper in pre-state and post-independence Israel
Kesher, vol. 29 In 1965, following the alliance of the

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(which the General Zionists had become part of in 1961) and

Herut Herut () 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. Some of their policies were compared to those of the Nazi party. Early y ...

, ''HaBoker'' was merged with the Herut newspaper to form '' HaYom'', which ceased publication four years later.

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