Israelinsider, which describes itself as "Israel's Daily Newsmagazine", is an Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

-based daily online publication that provides news and commentary about Israel, including security and diplomatic issues, politics, culture, and global Jewish concerns, in particular anti-Semitism. Launched in 2001, and maintained six days a week (not updated on the Jewish Sabbath), the site has recently launched a companion site, , which features auto-updating filtered feeds and widgets from more than 100 Israel-related blogs and sites. The publication's revenue model is based primarily on reader contributions, advertising, and the licensing of Israel and Jewish history

Jewish history

Jewish history is the history of the Jews, their religion and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions and cultures. Since Jewish history is over 4000 years long and includes hundreds of different populations, any treatment can only be provided in broad strokes...

 maps.

Contributors

Among the several hundred Israel Insider contributors since the publication's inception are notable contemporary commentators and political figures from Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, such as Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the current Prime Minister of Israel. He serves also as the Chairman of the Likud Party, as a Knesset member, as the Health Minister of Israel, as the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and as the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel.Netanyahu is the first and, to...

, Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She began her career on the left of the political spectrum, writing for such publications as The Guardian and New Statesman. In the 1990s she moved to the right, and she now writes for the Daily Mail newspaper, covering political and social...

, John Podhoretz

John Podhoretz

John Podhoretz is an American neoconservative columnist for the New York Post, the editor of Commentary magazine, the author of several books on politics, and a former presidential speechwriter.-Life and career:...

, Michael Freund

Michael Freund

Michael Freund may refer to:* Michael Freund , German writer in the Nazi Party* Michael Freund, founder and chairman of the Jewish organization Shavei Israel* Also one of the best Hip Hop dancers quoted " Martha Gram"...

, Michael Oren

Michael Oren

Michael B. Oren is an American-born Israeli historian and author and the Israeli ambassador to the United States...

, Allan Dershowitz, M.J. Rosenberg, Barry Rubin

Barry Rubin

Barry Rubin is an American-born Israeli expert in terrorism. He is a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel and the director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center of the IDC, and a senior fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center's International Policy...

, Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery is an Israeli writer and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement.A member of the Irgun as a teenager, Avnery sat in the Knesset from 1965–74 and 1979–81...

, Jeff Jacoby

Jeff Jacoby

Jeff Jacoby is an American journalist and syndicated newspaper columnist.-Biography:Born in Cleveland to a Jewish family, Jacoby is a graduate of George Washington University and the Boston University School of Law, both with honors. His father, a Holocaust survivor, was born in present-day...

, and Aaron Lerner as well as Christian Zionism

Christian Zionism

Christian Zionism is a belief among some Christians that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, is in accordance with Biblical prophecy. It overlaps with, but is distinct from, the nineteenth century movement for the Restoration of the Jews...

 pundits like Stan Goodenough and Ryan Jones

Ryan Jones

Ryan Paul Jones is a Welsh international rugby union player who plays at number eight for the Ospreys. He is able to cover blindside flanker and second row; he played second row in his younger days as he was kept out of his preferred number 8 role by Gareth Delve.-Early life:Jones played junior...

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Special Israel-related projects

Israel Insider is also the host for various Israel-related interactive special projects , such as Israel's Story in Maps, a collection of historical and contemporary maps of Israel http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts+About+Israel/Israel+in+Maps/ which is the primary cartographic resource used by Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Other interactive specials include "disputed territories zoom map" http://www.israelinsider.com/popup/places/disputed_territories.htm , "disengagement days" timeline http://www.israelinsider.com/dmap and "Israel's Changing Borders" http://www.israelinsider.com/popup/places/changing_border.htm.

Suspicion of U.S Presidential candidate Barack Obama

The magazine is suspicious of the American Presidential candidate Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

 and has written numerous articles scrutinising Obama and alleged contradictions in his past. They have shown a particular interest in claims that Obama is or was a Muslim

Muslim

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...

, with an article in March 2008 titled "Is Barack Obama a Muslim wolf in Christian wool?"

Site Traffic

According to Quantcast

Quantcast

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 http://www.quantcast.com/israelinsider.com , Israel Insider attracted between 30,000 and 70,000 monthly unique visitors in second quarter of 2008, the majority of whom come from North America

North America

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, the UK and Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. In the same period, the site attracted 40,000 to 100,000 monthly U.S. visits.

Editor and Publisher

Israelinsider is edited by Reuven Koret and published by Koret Communicationshttp://www.koret.com/ , an Internet design and development company based in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

, Israel, which produces a number of other Jewish and Israel media such as the Shmooze social network http://www.shmooze.com, ISRAEL21chttp://www.israel21c.org, Jewish Content http://www.jewishcontent.com, the Jerusalem Post French Edition http://fr.jpost.com, Eretz Acheret

Eretz acheret

Eretz Acheret is an independent, not-for-profit organization in Israel that produces a bi-monthly Hebrew magazine, periodic English magazines, a bilingual website, and conferences. Each magazine is dedicated to a select topic, and the conferences around publication of each issue supplement the...

 literary magazine http://www.acheret.co.il, the AVI CHAI Foundation http://www.avichai.org.il, and others. Koret Communications is also involved in online projects for Birthright Israel

Birthright Israel

Taglit-Birthright Israel is a Jewish Israeli registered charity that sponsors free 10-day heritage trips to Israel. Birthright Israel's goals are to diminish the division between Israel and Jewish communities around the world and to strengthen participants' personal Jewish identity and...

http://www.birthrightisrael.com