Davar (, lit. Speech, Word) was a Hebrew-language daily newspaper published in the British Mandate of Palestine and Israel between 1925 and May 1996. A similarly named website was launched in 2016, under the name Davar Rishon as an online outlet by the Histadrut.

History

Newspaper (1925–1996)

thumb|The first page of Davar first issue

thumb|Reading Davar at Kibbutz [[HaZore'a]]

Davar was established by Moshe Beilinson and Berl Katznelson, with Katznelson as its first editor, as the newspaper of the Histadrut. In April, 2019 the website was closed for several weeks in a labor dispute. In October 2019 it started to publish also an English edition. In January 2020 it started to publish an Arabic edition.

Notable journalists

thumb|160px|[[Dan Ben-Amotz]]

  • Shmuel Yosef Agnon
  • Natan Alterman
  • Yossi Beilin (born 1948)
  • Moshe Beilinson
  • Dan Ben-Amotz (1924–89), radio broadcaster, journalist, playwright, and author
  • Amnon Dankner
  • Leah Goldberg
  • Haim Gouri (1923-2018), poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker
  • Uri Zvi Greenberg
  • Tali Lipkin-Shahak
  • Aryeh Navon (cartoonist)
  • Dov Sadan
  • Yitzhak Yatziv
  • David Zakai

References

  • Searchable archives at Historical Jewish Press