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Behadrei Haredim in English

Lean: RightType: Haredi newsLanguage: HebrewBased in: JerusalemFunding: Commercial advertisingFounded: 2002

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Behadrei Haredim is a haredi news outlet based in Jerusalem, publishing in Hebrew. On baba News’s left–center–right scale it is rated Right (Religious). We translate Behadrei Haredim's Hebrew coverage into clear English and compare it against other Israeli newsrooms across the spectrum.

Stories
1998
Translated coverage in the last 30 days.
Bylined
100%
Share of stories with a named author.
Originals
37%
Share of stories this newsroom reported first.
Opinion
0%
Share of opinion and analysis.
Press releases
0%
Share of press-release copy.
Median lag
335 min
Median minutes behind the first report on the same story.

Why not a score? These are rates we can recompute. A single number would hide whether a newsroom is slow, unnamed, or mostly reprints.

How Behadrei Haredim writes

Neutralover 1998 pieces this month · Haredi press mean: 1.41 against 1.43

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