Recent Likud electoral success shows value of newspapers

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Valley News - Opinion
It is ironic that people are criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on social media.I used the word ironic, not hypocritical. People have the right to criticize Netanyahu and Israel’s Likud government, whether that be orally, in print, or through social media. The irony is that the Likud government has recently been successful due to the benefits of less advanced technologies used by the political right.I will spare the explanation of why Israeli Jews aren’t as predominantly politically liberal as their American counterparts. But when the Israeli political right became upset with the liberal media a right-of-center daily newspaper called Yisrael Hayom, which translates to Israel Today, was founded. Yisrael Hayom was founded in 2007, when daily newspapers were sup
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