Israeli Settler Buys Stricken Newspaper
Posted: 9/21/2012  |  By: Harriet Sherwood | Guardian.co.uk
One of Israel's oldest daily newspapers has been sold to a settler businessman in the face of looming bankruptcy. Many of its employees face losing their jobs in the coming weeks.

Ma'ariv was founded in 1948, the same year as the state of Israel was declared, and was the country's largest circulation daily in the 1950s.