Yated Ne'eman () is a semi-major Israeli daily Hebrew language newspaper based in Bnei Brak. The Hebrew edition is published daily except on the Jewish Sabbath. A weekly English language edition was published in Israel and distributed in Israel, South Africa and Britain until December 2006. An English language newspaper by the same name is published in New York. It was formerly affiliated with the Israeli newspaper, but is currently independent. This article concentrates on the Israeli Yated Ne'eman. History The paper was founded in 1985 by Rabbis Elazar Shach (1898–2001) and Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (1899–1985). In 1988 Rabbi Shach went on to found the Degel HaTorah political party that later joined forces with Agudath Israel and is called United Torah Judaism. Yated, whose first editor was Rabbi Moshe Grylak, was founded as part of a broad initiative to have a full range of social and communal organizations that specifically serve the Lithuanian Torah community, after it was felt that Agudat Israel, its institutions, and their paper Hamodia no longer represented their point of view. Yated Ne'eman is controlled by its rabbinic board which had deferred to Rabbis Nissim Karelitz and Aharon Leib Shteinman on all matters pertaining to the content of the newspaper. In the spirit of Rabbi Shach, its ideology is non-Zionist, with strong opposition to both religious Zionism as well as secular Zionism. In May 2016, it opined that Israel is responsible for anti-Semitism throughout the world, writing that "The State of Israel, which was established to solve the problem of anti-Semitism, has become the main cause of anti-Semitism. The Jews of the world are suffering not because of their religion, but because of the State of Israel and its policies!" and "The natural state of the Jewish people is exile! Its normality is in the pressure cooker of hatred and persecution." In practice, these particular views are reflected in only a handful of articles each year. Most of the content reports news related to the religious community and articles supporting their ideology which is based on Torah study and mitzvah observance and does not define its basic identity in political terms. Since December 2006, the Chareidi Dei'ah Vedibur website has continued offering weekly news coverage and occasional religious content in English. The website is edited by the publicist Mordecai Plaut. The Yated Neeman newspaper published in New York was originally affiliated with the Jerusalem paper of