Kikar HaShabbat כיכר השבת | |
Type: | News website |
Registration: | Optional |
Language: | Hebrew |
Owner: | Mordechai Lavi |
Editor: | Chaim Illouz |
Current Status: | Online |
Kikar HaShabbat (he|כיכר השבת|lit=''Sabbath Square'') is a Hebrew–language Israeli news website directed toward Haredi audience. It is named after an intersection in Jerusalem in a neighbourhood inhabited by Haredi Jews. A Globes study in 2017 found it as Israel's 9th most used news website.[1]
Kikar HaShabbat was started in 2009 by journalist Mordechai Lavi. In 2012, Israeli website Ynet acquired half of Kikar HaShabbat.[2] From its founding to 2012 Menachem Cohen was the chief editor.