In 1909 a weekly newspaper by the name of Ha-Herut was established in 1909 by Avraham Elmalih, later a member of the Knesset for the Sephardim and Oriental Communities party.
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 yishuv, 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 Foreign Secretary in November 1943.
Its journalists included Yoel Marcus, Dan Margalit, Eitan Haber, Shlomo Nakdimon, Ze'ev Galili, Amos Keinan, Uzi Benziman, Eliyahu Matza, Dan Levin, Aryeh Naor and Moshe Katsav.