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.

6 天之前 · 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 Economist for 23 years. They covered the first Lebanon War and other Middle East conflicts as a team.

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 Debka.com, which deals with security and intelligence affairs, predicted that the United States would toughen its posture toward Arafat and make him return to his "natural place and ...

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 claims he and his wife predicted the al-Qaida attack on the World Trade Center.

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 south Damascus. He was described as having been martyred but not by whom.

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 identifies the best part of the website as being its archives, but decries the fact that "most of the information is attributed to unidentified sources."

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 Debke published details regarding secret Iranian airbases in Lebanon.