 It became a daily newspaper in 1912, and was edited by Elmalih between 1914 and 1919, being the only Hebrew newspaper to appear regularly during World War I.

Herut was established as the journal of the Irgun in 1942, with its first edition published on 10 March that year.It was published at least once a month on four pages, and was sent by mail to private addresses, as well as being pasted on walls in public areas.The paper took a Revisionist slant on problems in the yishuv, but also included coded messages to members of the Irgun underground.