In 2022, a TGI survey indicated that Israel Hayom, distributed for free, is Israel's most read newspaper, with a 31% weekday readership exposure, followed by Yedioth Ahronoth, with 23.9%, Haaretz with 4.7%, and Maariv with 3.5%.
[1] Ha-Levanon, the first Hebrew-language newspaper in pre-state Israel, was published on February 20, 1863.
No other area with a population of two million, of whom at least 30 percent are illiterate, could boast of 18 morning dailies, three evening papers, and a host of weeklies, bi-weeklies and monthlies.
"[4] In 2015, Reuters correspondent Tova Cohen described Israeli society in 2012 as "news-obsessed.
"[5] Israel has a high newspaper readership rate, due to a combination of high literacy rate and a cultural interest in politics and current affairs.