This is how the newspapers and websites covered the death of billionaire Sheldon Adelson, the owner of “Israel Today”

The media in the Yedioth Ahronoth group were modest and sometimes completely concealed the death of gambling mogul Sheldon Adelson, the founder and financier of the great competitor “Israel Today.” In Adelson’s media in Israel, on the other hand, they were modest about being a gambling mogul.

Yesterday afternoon, Israel Time issued the official announcement of the deaths of Adelson, the richest Jew in the world and the patron of Donald Trump in the United States and Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. All the major news sites, except Ynet and Calcalist from Yedioth Ahronoth, received the news about His death to the headline.

The Israel Today website referred from the main headline to an article by his widow, Dr. Miriam Adelson: “In great pain: Sheldon Adelson 1933-2021.” The main headline on the website was dedicated to the death of the newspaper’s founder throughout the evening and night, until late in the morning. The second owned by Adelson, “Makor Rishon”, gave him the utmost respect. In the afternoon last night, the headline “Sheldon Adelson passed away” was published and she remained there for long hours. Later, the headline on the Makor Rishon website was dedicated to the obituary of Adelson, Today in the late morning.

Headlines about Adelson’s death also appeared on N12 (“Billionaire Sheldon Adelson passed away”), News 13 (“The billionaire and owners of Israel today Sheldon Adelson passed away at the age of 87”), “Walla” (“The billionaire and owners of” Israel Today “Sheldon Adelson died at age 87 “),” Maariv “(” The Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson died at the age of 87 “), here (” Businessman Sheldon Adelson passed away at the age of 87 “), and” Haaretz “(” The Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson, Netanyahu’s patron, dies At the age of 87 “).

The headline in Haaretz, by the way, was changed after about an hour to “The billionaire gambling billionaire Sheldon Adelson died at the age of 87.” Between the publication of the original version and the amended publication, Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister’s son, expressed indignation On Adelson’s description of his father’s patron.

On the Ynet website of Yedioth Ahronoth, however, the news of Adelson’s death never made headlines. The wording was also unusual. “The gambling mogul Sheldon Adelson has passed away,” read the headline, the only one that mentioned in its first version the fact that Adelson made his fortune from gambling money. In fact, later on, the wording on the Ynet website was changed to “Billionaire Sheldon Adelson passed away.”

Examining the economic sites brought up a similar picture. The Globes website published the headline “Jewish-American businessman Sheldon Adelson died at age 87”, The Marker published the headline “Billionaire Sheldon Adelson dies at age 87”, while Calcalist of the Yedioth Ahronoth group failed The news of Adelson’s death, taken from the Ynet website, reached the site’s headline.

By the way, the phrase “Netanyahu’s patron”, which was omitted at 16:15 from the main headline on the Haaretz website, was added almost simultaneously with the main headline on the The Marker website.

In the print press, the extensive coverage given to Adelson’s death stood out in the newspaper he owned, “Israel Today.” The entire title page, as well as all the systemic content on pages 2-15 was dedicated to the death of the founder and sponsor. In all, the paper devoted more than 8,000 words to his death. But despite the extensive coverage, the source of Adelson’s fortune remains almost a mystery to readers of “Israel Today.”

The word “gambling” appears only twice in all 15 pages that “Israel Today” dedicates to his death, twice in a direct quote from the obituary of a former Nevada senator, where gambling is legal and where Adelson made his first fortune. Of the more than 8,000 words dedicated to his death, the word “casino” appears only four times, three in the margins of a profile written about him by Erez Lin, and once in the article devoted to covering reactions to his death, where it is stated that there was someone who called him “casino mogul.” The 2000 file is not mentioned at all, nor is Yedioth Ahronoth.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid tribute to Adelson in “Israel Today”, but the connection between Adelson and Netanyahu, which the newspaper embodies, is not mentioned at all in the newspaper’s articles, reports and obituaries. In fact, the explicit name “Netanyahu” does not appear at all in all the pages devoted by “Israel Today” to the death of the founder and financier.

The headline of Haaretz also includes a photograph of Adelson (“the man who most influenced the public arena”) and every page 3 of the paper was devoted to covering his death (“The King of Kings”; “The Man Who Changed the Press”; “Adelson as an Ideal”). The content, of course, is much more critical than that of “Israel Today.” At the Maariv gate, Adelson was given a corner at the bottom (“one of the greatest contributors to the Jewish people”). Every page 4 of the paper was dedicated to his death in a news story, devoid of interpretation.

Yedioth Ahronoth gave his death the least attention. A small box at the bottom of the title page (“Billionaire Sheldon Adelson passed away at age 87”) and knowledge across every page 10, is also uninterpreted.

In the economic press the gaps are even greater. While “Globes” gave Adelson’s headline the headline, and “The Marker” printed his photo at the top of the cover, in the issue of “Calcalist”, the economic newspaper from Yedioth Ahronoth, not a single word was written about Adelson’s death.