In September 2023, a note on the website indicated that it was closing down, following the passing of its founder Giora Shamis. [5]

DEBKAfile (English and Hebrew) - founded in 2000 as one of the Internet’s earliest news sites – is closing down, following the passing of its founder, the journalist and writer, Giora Shamis.

2025年2月26日 · Giora Shamis is chief editor and CEO of DEBKA Publications. Diane Shalem is editor of the DEBKAfile English edition. Giora Shamis and Diane Shalem collaborated at The …

2001年10月18日 · The Middle East peace plan of U.S. President George W. Bush caught Giora Shamis unprepared. Last December, Shamis, the owner and chief writer of the Internet site …

2007年8月12日 · Giora Shamis and his wife, Diane Shalem, launched DEBKAfile (Debka.com) in 2000 to focus on security, terrorist activities and military affairs in the Middle East. Shamis …

2020年3月12日 · Farhad Dabirian, was a former IRGC commander of the central Syria city of Palmyra and “Guardian of the Sayyida Zainab shrine” an important Shiite pilgrimage site in …

The site started in the summer of 2000, and is operated from the Jerusalem home of journalists Giora Shamis and Diane Shalem. It has been awarded Forbes' Best of the Web award. Forbes …

2023年10月9日 · Top Hamas and Iranian intelligence figures were recorded on secret recordings celebrating his death. The hit was reportedly ordered after Shamis’s online tabloid newspaper …