{"id":2408,"date":"2012-09-09T21:55:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T03:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2012-09-24T02:22:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T08:22:06","slug":"israeli-daily-maariv-reportedly-sold-to-right-wing-nationalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/israeli-daily-maariv-reportedly-sold-to-right-wing-nationalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli daily Maariv reportedly sold to right wing nationalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) &#8212; The Israeli daily newspaper Maariv reportedly was sold to the publisher of the right wing nationalist newspaper Makor Rishon.\u00a0The $21 million sale, which does not include Maariv&#8217;s debts or publishing house, will be completed by October, the Israeli business daily Globes reported Sunday. Israeli businessman Nochi Danker owns Maariv.<\/p>\n<p>Makor Rishon publisher Shlomo Ben-Tzvi plans to continue operating Maariv as a\u00a0 newspaper, according to a notice from Maariv Holdings Ltd. to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, Globes reported. Ben-Tzvi also will offer to hire as many as 400 Maariv employees, the notice said &#8212; Maariv has about 2,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the sale, Ben-Zvi also is acquiring the NRG website, a chain of local newspapers, magazines, intellectual property rights, and the newspaper&#8217;s clients and subscribers, according to the Calcalist business news service.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the board of Discount Investment Corp., which is owned by Danker, agreed to put more than $3 million into Maariv and sell its printing house. Maariv reportedly was going to cease publishing on a daily basis, only producing a weekend edition while providing updated daily Internet news.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Israeli%20daily%20Maariv%20reportedly%20sold%20to%20right%20wing%20nationalist\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8790,8795,650,651,8788,652],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/2635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}