“While Yediot Aharonot is writing about what happened yesterday, we are writing about what happened today,” a source at Metro is quoted by The Jerusalem Post as saying. “If there is a murder or a political agreement in the morning, we will be the first who can write about it.

The newspaper is owned by Dudi Weissman, who also controls the Blue Square supermarket giant and the Dor Alon energy firm, and Eli Azur, who also owns The Jerusalem Post. Articles by Post journalists will also appear in Metro.

Metro will join several new Hebrew free dailies, “in a trend that has many praising Israeli journalism's opening to new voices, while wondering how long such papers can survive, what sway they may ultimately hold in society, and what the implications are of new and old voices alike being bankrolled by one or two major owners per paper,” writes the Post's Noach Lawrence.