Al HaMishmar was a daily newspaper published in Mandate Palestine and Israel

Israel

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 between 1943 and 1995. The paper was owned by, and affiliated with Hashomer Hatzair

Hashomer Hatzair

Hashomer Hatzair is a Socialist–Zionist youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, and was also the name of the group's political party in the Yishuv in the pre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine...

 as well as the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party of Palestine

Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party of Palestine

The Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party of Palestine was a Marxist-Zionist political party in Mandate Palestine, connected to the Hashomer Hatzair movement. At the time of its foundation, in 1946, the party had around 10,000 members, two-thirds of whom hailed from the Kibbutz Artzi movement...

 (Mapam

Mapam

Mapam was a political party in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz party.-History:Mapam was formed by a January 1948 merger of the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party and Ahdut HaAvoda Poale Zion Movement. The party was originally Marxist-Zionist in its outlook and represented...

 after 1948).

History

The paper was established under the name Mishmar on 30 July 1943 as the journal of Hashomer Hatzair. At the top of the first page of every issue was the banner "For Zionism, Socialism and Brotherhood amongst Nations". Its readership was mainly based on subscriptions from Kibbutz Artzi, Hashomer Hatzair and Mapam members.

Its journalists included Yoel Marcus, Eliezer Peri

Eliezer Peri

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, Tom Segev

Tom Segev

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, Shelly Yachimovich and Avi Benayahu

Avi Benayahu

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, whilst Leah Goldberg

Leah Goldberg

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, Avraham Shlonsky

Avraham Shlonsky

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, Yehoshua Sobol

Yehoshua Sobol

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 and Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach

Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach

-Biography:Yitshak Orpaz was born in the Soviet Union. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine at the age of 17. He served in the British Army during the Second World War and in the Israel Defense Forces during the Israeli War of Independence. After the war he served in the regular army...

 were all contributors. The paper also had an Arabic version, al-Mersad, of which Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi

Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi

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 and Muhammed Wattad

Muhammed Wattad

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were amongst the editors.

From 1993 Kibbutz Artzi members were no longer automatically subscribers, and in 1995 the paper was closed, with the last edition on 31 March.