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{{short description|Israeli news and general content website}} {{use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox website | name = Ynet | logo = Ynet website logo.svg | logo_size = | screenshot = Ynet screenshot.png | caption = Screenshot of Ynet on 25 June 2025 | vector_logo = | collapsible = Yes | type = Online newspaper | genre = | foundation = {{start date and age|2000}} | founder = | location_city = | location_country = Israel | location = Rishon LeZion | origins = | key_people = Gido Ran (editor in chief) <br/> Shay Magal (CEO) | area_served = | industry = News, Internet portal | products = | Income = | operating_income = | net_income = | num_employees = | parent = ''Yedioth Ahronoth'' | divisions = Ynetnews | subsid = | owner = | slogan = | homepage = {{URL|https://www.ynet.co.il}} | dissolved = | footnotes = }}

'''Ynet''' (stylized in all lowercase as '''ynet''') is an Israeli news and general-content website, and the online outlet for the ''Yedioth Ahronoth'' newspaper.<ref>{{cite news |date=27 December 2005 |title=Ynetnews: Israel at Your Fingertips |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3028645,00.html |publisher=Ynetnews |access-date=26 January 2014 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026031531/https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3028645,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

==History== Ynet launched on June 6, 2000, in Hebrew, following other Hebrew outlet's website launches including ''Haaretz'', ''Maariv'' and ''Globes''. According to ''Globes'', the launch of Ynet may have been delayed due to concerns about Ynet cannibalizing the ''Yedioth Ahronoth'' newspaper. The website had 130 staff members at launch, and the original columnists included Ofer Shelah and Gadi Taub. Its content is separate from the newspaper.<ref name="Meshari">{{cite news |last1=Meshari |first1=Aviva |title=סוף סוף: הושק YNet – האתר של "ידיעות אחרונות" |url=https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=201459 |access-date=4 June 2024 |work=Globes |date=2000-06-06 |language=Hebrew |archive-date=26 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226184246/https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=201459 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QAjKAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA39|title=New Media, Politics and Society in Israel|last1=Doron|first1=Gideon|last2=Lev-On|first2=Azi|date=2014-06-11|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317977872|language=en}}</ref>

In addition, Ynet hosts the online version of Yedioth Aharanot's media group magazines: Lalsha (which also operates Ynet's fashion section), ''Pnai Plus'', ''Blazer'', ''GO Magazine'', and ''Mentha''. For two years, Ynet also had an Arabic edition, which ceased operation in May 2005. Ynet<nowiki>'</nowiki>s main competition comes from Walla!, Mako and Nana. Since 2008, Ynet is Israel's most popular internet portal, as measured by Google Trends.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ynet is the leading Israeli Internet portal |author=Nathan Lipson |author2=Maayan Cohen |date=23 June 2008 |url=https://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/ynet-is-the-leading-israeli-internet-portal-1.248301 |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=26 January 2014 |archive-date=15 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015225741/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/ynet-is-the-leading-israeli-internet-portal-1.248301 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In celebration of Israel's independence day in 2005, Ynet conducted a poll to determine whom Ynet readers consider to be the greatest Israelis of all time.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/could-obama-be-ready-to-jumpstart-the-peace-process-2011-8 |title=Could Obama Be Ready to Jumpstart the Peace Process? |work=Business Insider |date=August 28, 2011 |author=Laura Goldman |access-date=September 22, 2011 |archive-date=16 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016004201/https://www.businessinsider.com/could-obama-be-ready-to-jumpstart-the-peace-process-2011-8 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=YnetGreatestIsraeli>{{cite news |url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html |script-title=he:הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין |language=he |trans-title=Israeli number one: Yitzhak Rabin |newspaper=Ynet |date=November 5, 2005 |author=Guy Veniovic |access-date=September 22, 2011 |archive-date=12 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012151358/http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wiredevent.co.uk/wired/speakers/yossi-vardi |title=Yossi Vardi |publisher=Wiredevent.co.uk |date=September 16, 2011 |access-date=September 22, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818141645/http://www.wiredevent.co.uk/wired/speakers/yossi-vardi |archive-date=August 18, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Arison_Shari.html |title=Shari Arison (1957–) |publisher=Jewish Virtual Library |access-date=September 22, 2011 |archive-date=15 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015225739/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Arison_Shari.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september082011/israel-dogs-ua.php |title=Israeli Dogs of War |work=Salem-News |date=September 8, 2011 |author=Uri Avnery |access-date=September 22, 2011 |archive-date=15 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015225744/http://salem-news.com/articles/september082011/israel-dogs-ua.php |url-status=live }}</ref> The top 200 results were published, with Yitzhak Rabin placing first in the survey, and David Ben-Gurion placing second.<ref name=YnetGreatestIsraeli/>

In 2005, Ynet employed 80 reporters.<ref name="Ynetnews founded" />

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''Ynetnews'' is the English language website associated with ''Yedioth Ahronoth'', and the Hebrew ''Ynet''. ''Ynetnews'' was established in February 2005 in Tel Aviv, with a staff of nine people. According to Gadi Taub of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the launch of Ynetnews was a major event in English-language media in Israel. The founding editor of ''Ynetnews'', Alan Abbey planned to focus on American Jews as an audience.<ref name="Ynetnews founded">{{cite news |author=Nathaniel Popper |url=http://www.forward.com/articles/2979/ |title=Israeli Newspaper Brawl Moving to the Internet |work=The Forward |date=February 25, 2005 |access-date=April 11, 2008 |archive-date=15 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015225741/https://forward.com/articles/2979/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Abbey left in the summer of 2005 to serve as Internet Director for Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alan Abbey – Research Fellow |url=https://www.hartman.org.il/person/alan-abbey/ |website=Shalom Hartman Institute |access-date=17 November 2023 |archive-date=17 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231117121437/https://www.hartman.org.il/person/alan-abbey/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to a 2018 study published by Oxford University Press, Ynet publishes articles and interviews at the instigation of the Israeli government, without declaring any connection with the government – these publications aim to stir up pro-Israeli sentiment.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Bradshaw |first1=Samantha |last2=Howard |first2=Philip N. |date=2018 |title=Online Supplement to Working Paper 2018.1 Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation |url=https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/ct_appendix.pdf |work=Oxford University Press |pages=34–35}}</ref>

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==External links== * [https://www.ynet.co.il/ Israel News – Ynet], {{in lang|he}} * [https://www.ynetnews.com/ Israel News – Ynetnews], English-language version

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