 At an early stage "Ha-Yom" became the newspaper of choice of many followers of the Lovers of Zion movement.However, "Ha-Meliz" was able to convince a large portion of them to shift their subscriptions back to "Ha-Meliz", thus significantly undercutting the popularity of "Ha-Yom".In 1887 the literary "Ben-Ami" ("Son of my people") was introduced as a monthly supplement to "Ha-Yom".