{"id":231641,"date":"2026-01-10T22:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/231641\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T22:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:42:15","slug":"ex-haaretz-columnist-alon-pinkas-received-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars-for-services-he-provided-to-qatar-lobbyist-jay-footlik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/231641\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Haaretz Columnist Alon Pinkas Received Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars for Services He Provided to Qatar Lobbyist Jay Footlik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x1wty727 x1717udv xb3r6kr xeh89do x1hyvwdk xg01cxk x10l6tqk xuxw1ft xp5j34i xjm9jq1 x1jyxor1 xj3b58b x1y7amh xdj266r x1i1rx1s\" id=\"article-breadcrumbs-header\">Current section<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\" data-testid=\"breadcrumb-link\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel News<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x1mjqqkp x186li6p xo9jp16 xhhvhw0 xzv9wj1 x1sv1lhw x1913kr3 xhacrq1 x10yyv3n xpiheen x1qh5rs article-subtitle\" data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">Pinkas was paid from January 2024 through March 2025, while he was employed at Haaretz, funneled to him via businessman Gil Birger. According to Pinkas, the money was compensation for writing policy papers; he denies any familiarity with, or involvement in, the pro-Qatar campaign formulated by Footlik. However, several of his articles include messages that align with the campaign&#8217;s talking points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Current section Israel News Pinkas was paid from January 2024 through March 2025, while he was employed at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,1823,26420],"class_list":{"0":"post-231641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-qatar","12":"tag-qatargate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}