How a 20-Year-Old Built a Fast-Growing News Channel on the Iran War
How 2 Israeli newsrooms covered this story — translated into English and compared side by side.
First reported by TheMarker · Jun 7, 2026
What happened
Aaron Cohen, a 20-year-old Israeli, built the Aaron Yediot news channel into a major social media source with about 200,000 followers. He says it started as a WhatsApp group on October 7, grew rapidly during the war, was later blocked on WhatsApp, and then expanded on Telegram. Cohen says he runs it alone, earns about 10,000 shekels a month, and relies on fast but censored information from his own source network.
- 01Aaron Cohen runs the Aaron Yediot channel alone, with about 200,000 followers.
- 02The project began as a small WhatsApp group on October 7.
- 03WhatsApp blocked the channel, so Cohen rebuilt it on Telegram.
- 04He says he reported Iran's ceasefire first this Monday.
- 05The channel now earns him about 10,000 shekels monthly.
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