What is Ynet?
Ynet is a Hebrew-language Israeli news site whose sport pages sit on a path of the parent domain at ynet.co.il/sport rather than on a separate sports domain.[1] The contact page names ידיעות אינטרנט — Yedioth Internet — as publisher and lists editors for news, opinion, economics, sport, culture, health, environment and science, digital, Judaism, wellness and parenting, vehicles, community, tourism, relationships, food and English-language coverage, alongside an editor-in-chief.[2]
The corporate position is stated in the site's own terms of use, updated on 8 July 2025. The terms name the operating entities as Yedioth Ahronoth Ltd and associated Yedioth companies at 1 Moses Street, Ramat Hasharon, and state that copyright and intellectual property rights in the site and application belong to Ynet Internet and Yedioth Ahronoth, other than user-submitted content. The same terms cover the Yedioth+ subscription service, the digital newspaper edition and related sites including Calcalist and Mynet.[3]
The site's privacy policy, last updated on 21 December 2025, is issued by the Yedioth Ahronoth group and names among the entities it covers Yedioth Internet, ynet, Yedioth Tikshoret Ltd, Mynet, Yedioth Ahronoth Ltd, La'isha, Calcalist, ynetglobal, ctech and others, and states that it applies to ynet.co.il, the Yedioth+ premium site and application, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper application and further group sites.[4] The relationship between the site and the newspaper is described on the contact page only to the extent of directing enquiries about the newspaper to a separate telephone number; no founding date for the site could be retrieved.[2]
What does Ynet cover?
The sport section's own listing names Ligat ha'Al in football and the Israeli National League in basketball, the English Premier League, and summaries of the Spanish and Italian leagues, alongside international football and basketball and other sports.[1] The section states that it carries exclusive video clips from those competitions; that is the site's own description of its output and no rights agreement for the clips could be retrieved.
The section is general rather than single-sport, and it sits inside a general news site: the contact page's list of section editors places sport among sixteen desks, which is the structural position of the sport desk rather than a claim about its size.[2] Within the sport section the desks are named separately — Israeli football, world football, Israeli basketball, world basketball and other sports — and the Israeli football desk lists Ligat ha'Al, the National League and the lower divisions, the cups and the national team.[5]
The terms of use also delimit what may be done with the output. They prohibit unauthorised use of the content for training artificial-intelligence systems, web scraping and synthetic content generation without written permission — a restriction on reuse dated 8 July 2025 rather than a statement about coverage.[3]
How large is Ynet's audience?
No audited audience or circulation figure for the sport section could be retrieved. The sport section itself publishes no reach or traffic data, and neither does the contact page or the terms of use.[1][2][3]
Traffic estimators are not audited measurement and no estimate from one is given here in place of a measured figure. The site of the Israeli audience measurement committee, ועדת המדרוג, could not be fetched, and in any case television measurement would not cover a news site.
Ynet's own pages publish no equivalent claim about reach: neither the sport section, the contact page nor the terms of use states a visit, user or subscriber figure.[1][2][3]
Since when has Ynet existed?
No founding date for the site could be established from a source retrieved here. The contact page names the publisher but gives no year, the terms of use give only their own last-updated date of 8 July 2025, and the privacy policy gives only its own, 21 December 2025.[2][3][4]
The corporate names in the terms are older than the site: Yedioth Ahronoth Ltd is the newspaper company, and the terms treat the site, the Yedioth+ subscription service and the digital newspaper edition as one family of services under it.[3] A parent company's founding date is not the outlet's, and neither is stated here.
What can be dated on the site's own pages is its current structure: an editor-in-chief and sixteen section editors including sport, listed on the contact page as at the date of access.[2]
Why does Ynet matter in Israel's sport?
Its sport reaches readers who did not come for sport. The section sits on a path of a general news domain rather than on a sports domain, so the same masthead that carries news, economics and health carries Ligat ha'Al and the Israeli basketball leagues.[1][2]
Its selection spans the domestic and the European competition Israeli clubs enter. The section's own listing names Ligat ha'Al and the Israeli basketball National League beside the English Premier League and Spanish and Italian league summaries,[1] which puts domestic results and the foreign leagues Israeli audiences follow in one place.
Its output is also legally delimited in a way that bears on how it is used elsewhere: the terms updated on 8 July 2025 assert copyright in the site's material to Ynet Internet and Yedioth Ahronoth and restrict scraping and reuse.[3]
References
- ynet ספורט — sport section of ynet.co.il. Accessed 2026-09-20.
- ynet — contact and editorial staff page naming ידיעות אינטרנט. Accessed 2026-09-20.
- ynet — terms of use, last updated 8 July 2025. Accessed 2026-09-20.
- ynet — privacy policy, last updated 21 December 2025. Accessed 2026-09-20.
- ynet — כדורגל ישראלי, Israeli football desk of the sport section. Accessed 2026-09-20.