Media personality Haim Levinson announced in a post he published on the X network that he was leaving the Haaretz editorial team after 17 years.
During his long career at the newspaper, he served as a field reporter, political correspondent, regular columnist, and political commentator - his last position.
""There is nothing in my life that I have done for 17 years in a row. I have been at Haaretz for more years than I have survived in the yeshiva," he wrote. "In 2012, during the big strike over the cuts, I never imagined that in 2025 I would still be working at Haaretz and that there would be such a thing as 'Print,' but fortunately I was wrong about both things.".
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He said: "I enjoyed every moment as a field reporter. I suffered every moment as a political reporter. The hardest mistake I've made in my life, more than running a marathon. One day I'll write extensively about the last few years.".
""Last year, I took it upon myself to be the newspaper's political commentator, hoping to find within myself the joy of journalistic activity that I once had, and that I felt was a little lost. This year was fascinating. The peace negotiations, the hostage deals, international dramas. I enjoyed writing, but after much thought with myself, I am also forced to admit: 25 years have passed since I entered the doors of the local newspaper, and the daily work of writing no longer speaks to me as it used to. I realized that it was time to move on. Others more talented than me will come along.".
Levinson added: "So I'm moving on. I've always told my colleagues, we're not retiring from print anymore. Someday it will end. A day will come, and we won't be here. It's my time to end. Writing for a newspaper was my biggest dream. But I have other dreams, mainly in the field of writing. I'm a boomer, I believe in words, not emojis. You'll have to continue to tolerate me on the screen and in other places to come.".
""And this is the opportunity to say a huge thank you to all the readers, all the commenters, all the lovers and all the haters, to all the people who actually bothered to read words with the name 'Chaim Levinson' written on them. This is the biggest cliché of all, but it is also the pure truth. Like the love of a father for his son. 30 years ago I never imagined that there was a possibility that my name would be printed somewhere that wasn't letters of reprimand from nervous teachers in Haidar.".
""And here it is, it happened in a big way. I was privileged to be one of those for whom humanity fulfilled their dream. You, you fulfilled my dream. Without the readers, I am nothing. A writer without readers is like a pond without water. I hope you will read me in the future. In other formats.".
