HaBoker was a Hebrew-language

Hebrew language

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 daily newspaper in Mandate Palestine and Israel

Israel

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 associated with the General Zionists

General Zionists

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The paper was established in 1935 by the right-wing of the General Zionists

General Zionists

The General Zionists were centrists within the Zionist movement and a political party in Israel. Their political arm is an ancestor of the modern-day Likud.-History:...

, with the first edition published on 11 October that year. Its first editor, Samuel Perl, left soon after the newspaper's founding, and was replaced by Joseph Heftman and Peretz Bernstein

Peretz Bernstein

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, one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence, who held the post until 1946. Its journalists included Yosef Tamir

Yosef Tamir

-Background:Tamir was born in Berdychiv in the Russian Empire and immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1924. He passed through elementary and high school in Petah Tikva and graduated from the Law and Economics School at Tel Aviv University....

, a secretary of the General Zionists, and Herzl Vardi

Herzl Rosenblum

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, another signatory of the declaration of independence.

The paper's circulation fell following independence, from 13,500 in 1950 to 4,000-4,500 in 1965. In 1965, following the alliance of the Liberal Party

Liberal Party (Israel)

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 (which the General Zionists had become part of in 1961) and Herut

Herut

Herut was the major right-wing political party in Israel from the 1940s until its formal merger into Likud in 1988, and an adherent of Revisionist Zionism.-History:...

, HaBoker was merged with the Herut newspaper

Herut (newspaper)

Herut was the name of four newspapers published in Palestine and later Israel. The first was established in Jerusalem during the Ottoman era, two were journals of the Irgun, whilst the fourth was owned by the Herut political party founded by former Irgun members.-Jerusalem newspaper:In 1909 a...

 to form HaYom, which ceased publication four years later.