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English news site belonging to Yedioth Ahronoth to close down
By Ayala Tsoref
Tags: Israel, Yedioth Ahronot, Ynet 

Ynet, the news Web site of the Yedioth Ahronoth publishing group, is closing down its English version. The plug will apparently be pulled in a few days. The Hebrew version of the online news source will continue to operate as usual.

Simply, the English version of Ynetnews wasn't generating satisfactory amounts of advertising revenues. The site had employed 11 people, some full-time and some part-time.

"Most of the site's 11 workers will have to leave. A small number will remain employed at Ynet," a high-ranking source at Ynet told TheMarker.
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The site's editor in chief, Jeff Barak, will also be leaving the group after nine months on the job. He said that insofar as he knows, all the English site's employees will be terminated. Asked why the management had decided to kill the site, he said: "The site managers decided to focus resources on the Hebrew site."

The English version consisted of material translated from the Hebrew site, augmented by independent content. It went online in mid-2005. The top Ynet management refused to comment for this report.
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