Annual weekday readership figures for Israel Hayom registered at 25.4% in 2024, reflecting a slight, statistically insignificant decrease from 26.8% in 2023. In contrast, Yedioth Ahronoth saw a statistically significant decline from 21.8% in 2023 to 17.9% in 2024. Statistical analysis confirms the statistically significant gap between the two publications.

Israel Hayom's strong performance extends to weekend editions as well. The newspaper's annual weekend readership remained steady at 26.6% between 2023 and 2024, while Yedioth Ahronoth experienced a marked decrease from 26.4% to 22.2%. The data demonstrates Israel Hayom's cemented top stop in the weekend market, with statistical analysis confirming a statistically significant gap between the two publications on weekends as well.

The TGI survey, a cornerstone of media research in Israel since 1998, draws from a representative sample of the Jewish population aged 18 and above, encompassing approximately 4.783 million individuals. It stands as the industry's most comprehensive tool for analyzing media consumption patterns in Israel.

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Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, which this year fell on Sept. 6, the staff of IsraelHayom.com took a look through our archives and identified the most popular stories for our readers in the year that had passed since Rosh Hashanah 5781.

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But nearly four months have passed since then, and the news – good, bad, and bizarre – keeps rolling on.

As 2021 comes to a close, these are a few of the more recent stories that resonated most with Israel Hayom readers.

Noah's Ark might not be where you think it is

In October, archaeologists with the Noah's Ark Scans project said that using advanced 3D scans, they had located a giant shape in the Turkish mountains the proportions of which match the biblical descriptions of Noah's Ark. The discovery was made in the Durupinar site on Mount Tendurek in eastern Turkey.

Miss Universe tweets and the world responds

Israel hosted this year's Miss Universe pageant in the resort city of Eilat on Dec. 13. The winner, Miss India – Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu – graciously sent out a tweet saying how much she had enjoyed her visit, upsetting some social media users.

Will we or won't we?

Israel Hayom military commentator Yoav Limor's analysis of the challenges inherent in any attack on Iran's military facilities was a fascinating read that delved not only into the tactical but also the strategic and diplomatic aspects of Israel employing the "military option."

Water, water, everywhere – and a lot of cheap energy, to boot

Hydrogen fuel could solve a lot of problems for humanity, but it's expensive to produce. Now researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology might have solved that problem.

Really, Dave?

Comedian Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix special, "The Closer," included a joke about alien "space Jew" travelers who want to claim the earth for their own, which apparently took aim at the outlandish and frightening accusations targeting Jews since the start of the COVID pandemic. Later on, however, Chappelle continued to riff, and it wasn't quite as funny.

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Several top evangelical Christian leaders reiterated their steadfast support for Israel in the wake of an open letter from a prominent evangelical Christian leader who castigated Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett over his support for a government to replace Benjamin Netanyahu.

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"Christian Zionists have had a relationship with every Prime Minister since [David] Ben-Gurion. That will not change," Christians United for Israel spokesman Ari Morgenstern told JNS.

In an expletive-laden open letter, evangelical leader Mike Evans, the founder of the Friends of Zion Heritage Center in Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Prayer Team, berated Bennett for "betraying" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and threatened to withhold evangelical Christian support for Israel.

"Don't ever call yourself a defender of Zion. You're not," wrote Evans. "You betrayed the very principles that a generation gave their blood for and died for. You want to be in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood and leftists. God have mercy on your soul. You're a pathetic, bitter little man so obsessed on murdering Netanyahu that you're willing to damage the State of Israel for your worthless cause."

He went on to say that he will "fight" Bennett on every step, saying "we gave you four years of miracles under [former President] Donald Trump and this is how you show your appreciation- shitting on our face. How dare you!"

"To say I'm disgusted with you is an understatement. You should hang your head in shame," said Evans.

'Evangelical Christians stand in solidarity with them'

His was far from the only opinion on the subject.

Laurie Cardoza-Moore, the host of "Focus on Israel" Christian television program and president of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, said "evangelical Christian support for Israel is eternal. The Bible does not change. PJTN will stand on what is biblically expedient, not what is politically correct."

However, she added, "while we do not involve ourselves with internal Israeli politics, it is of great concern that any government in the Jewish state would be reliant on the Muslim Brotherhood. It is of great concern to the future of the Land that G-d calls His!"

In a press release, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem said that its support for Israel remains "steadfast and anchored in timeless biblical principles," and is not contingent on who is leading Israel at any particular time.

"After going through four divisive elections, the year-long corona crisis, the recent conflict with Hamas, rising global anti-Semitism, the latest denigration of Israel in UN forums and the ever-looming threat of a nuclear Iran, the Israeli public right now needs to be hearing that evangelical Christians stand in solidarity with them, regardless of who is leading their nation," said ICEJ President Dr. Jürgen Bühler.

"No one should doubt that pro-Israel Christians around the world have great respect for Benjamin Netanyahu and his many accomplishments as Israel's longest-serving prime minister. But we do not detect any widespread move among evangelicals, in America or worldwide, to stop supporting Israel if he is replaced," he emphasized. "In fact, Israel has been gaining millions of new Christian friends around the globe over the past decade, and we fully expect that trend to continue."

Meanwhile, in response to Evan's open letter, Rabbi Tuly Weisz, who runs the website Israel365, called for a new relationship between evangelical Christians and Jews in the background of a new Israeli government.

In his letter, Weisz expressed the sense of shock and horror he felt when reading Evans' harsh and vulgar letter, unbefitting a self-defined friend of Zion.

"A defender of Zion is someone who puts his life on the line for the Jewish people … someone who thinks day and night about Israel's security, as Naftali Bennett has done. And let me tell you who is not a friend of Zion. Someone who literally takes out ads and billboards, calling himself the 'largest evangelical leader in the world,' and then publicly attacks, threatens and delegitimizes Israel's democratically elected prime minister," he wrote.

Weisz assured that Christian Zionists remain firmly behind Israel: "The Christian Zionists with whom I am in daily contact are unconditional in their love and support for Israel, based on the biblical commandment to bless Israel and love the Jewish people. It is inconceivable that Mike Evans would defy the word of God in the name of the 100 million Christians he purports to represent and threaten to revoke that support."

"The time has come for us to forge a new, meaningful rabbi-pastor relationship, where we work together as true friends of Zion to support Israel in a multitude of ways," he said, calling on "every pro-Israel pastor in the world to contact me personally because I want to work directly with you to create a new form of Christian support for Israel, built on real relationships with real Jews."

Reprinted with permission from JNS.org

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The driver, who is in her thirties, suffered a head trauma and was evacuated to a hospital in central Israel. Her two children, who were with her in the vehicle, were not harmed in the incident but apparently were key in stopping the car from crashing, pulling the handbrake when they realized what had unfolded.

The rock-throwing attack took place near the main entrance to the community of Halamish just west of Jerusalem. First-responders who arrived at the scene said she was fully conscious when they arrived.

The Israel Defense Forces said a manhunt was underway for the perpetrators

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"Global death toll tops 1.1 million. Why did you put a picture of an Orthodox Jew as illustration of your report? … it's unnecessary and unpleasant," Nahshon wrote in a Twitter post.

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Nahshon, who has been fighting expressions of anti-Semitism in Belgium, was outraged over the choice of image.

Coronavirus: Global death toll tops 1.1 million. ⁦@BrusselsTimes⁩ - why did you put a picture of an Orthodox Jew as illustration of your report on worldwide #Covid19 deaths ? It's unnecessary and unpleasant. Please take it off . Thank you . https://t.co/QanfLjWbfc

— Emmanuel Nahshon (@EmmanuelNahshon) October 18, 2020

Nahshon asked the news outlet to choose another picture. The Israeli Embassy in Brussels said, "This is how anti-Semitism is spread."

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