Accuracy and accountability are among the most important tenets of journalism. In combination, they mean media organizations are expected to publish or broadcast forthright corrections after sharing inaccurate information. The following corrections are among the many prompted by CAMERA’s communication with reporters and editors.
CAMERA withdraws a complaint from the Israel Press Council after Ha'aretz corrects an article which had wrongly reported that Israel barred concrete and steel from entering the Gaza Strip for the last six years. CAMERA staff prompts a Ha'aretz correction today of an article which erroneously reported that Prime Minister Netanyahu and Secretary of State Kerry met last week in Tel Aviv. All of their meetings were in Jerusalem. CAMERA's Israel office prompts correction of Ha'aretz's latest "Lost in Translation." The English print edition had incorrectly identified an Israeli girl, now 19, who was raped six years ago by four Palestinians, as Palestinian. CAMERA's Israel office prompts a correction today of the latest examples of "Ha'aretz, Lost in Translation." Two articles in the English edition last week falsely reported that Jews are permitted to pray on the Temple Mount. CAMERA's Israel office prompts a Ha'aretz correction on a photo caption which wrongly identified Israeli stone-throwers as Palestinians. AFP, the agency which supplied the erroneous caption, has yet to publish a correction. 
In the latest "Ha'aretz, Lost in Translation," the English edition falsely reports that Jewish prayer is permitted on the Temple Mount. This is an egregious error given that only Muslims are permitted to pray at the site. Ha'aretz clarifies that Israeli officials were shocked by Samer Issawi's comparison of himself to Holocaust victims. They did not, as stated in the English edition, agree with it. How long will anonymous translators continue to invent with impunity? For the second consecutive day, CAMERA's Israel office prompts a correction in Ha'aretz. Today's clarification concerns a mistranslation which introduced the false claim that IDF officers must spend a week protecting illegal outposts. In response to communication from CAMERA, Ha'aretz today commendably corrects, in Hebrew and English, Gideon Levy's false claim that according to Amnesty International "only 92 Palestinian fighters" were killed in Cast Lead. CAMERA's Israel office has prompted a Ha'aretz correction today on a story in last week's print edition which wrongly stated that the United Nations recognized Palestine as a full-fledged member.