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Karhi presents revamped program for partial Kan privatization

Kan's news branch will be shut down, its main news radio station will be privatized, and its budget will cut to NIS 500 million.

|ByELIAV BREUER
The Knesset Economic Committee meets at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 18, 2024.
IDF Spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari delivers Sunday evening public address. March 24, 2024.

Is Israel losing the war against Hamas in Gaza? - opinion

Does Israel have professional crisis communications? The answer is yes, but it is extremely limited.

|ByJOEL LEYDEN
YORAM BINUR: In the news years.

Yoram Binur: Israeli journalist penetrating the Arab world

Binur, 68, grew up in Jerusalem’s Katamon neighborhood. The path he took, which led to his engagement with the Arab community, was quite a unique one.

|ByYAAKOV BAR-ON
Members of the Israeli media protest at a busy intersection in downtown Tel Aviv over the govenrment's plans to cut funding to the national public broadcaster, Jan. 29, 2023.

‘Scary time for Israeli democracy’: experts alarmed at threatened closure of public broadcaster

Media world hits back at plans to cut state funding for Kan as communications minister says ‘no place for public broadcasting in Israel’; academic warns country may be heading down ‘dangerous path.’

|BySARA MILLER/ THE MEDIA LINE

Here's how Israel can work toward a national consensus - editorial

Is there a world in which the government shared its plans before moving ahead?

JANUARY 19, 2023
More than 100,000 protestors fill Habima Square in Tel Aviv in protest against Netanyahu's government reforms.

Union of Journalists in Israel stands by Russian, Ukrainian journalists

The Union of Journalists in Israel has expressed its solidarity with both Russian and Ukrainian journalists.

MARCH 6, 2022
Smoke rises at a TV tower following an attack by Russian forces, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 1, 2022 in this still image taken from a video obtained from social media.

Finally, introspection in the press

We are not naïve. One newspaper issue, whose readership is limited, will not change the world.

FEBRUARY 12, 2020
ByYISRAEL MEDAD, ELI POLLAK
Israel Hayom newspaper

Prime ministers and relationships with media

In Britain, as in Israel, criminal law is too indiscriminate to regulate the complex relationship between media and officeholders.

NOVEMBER 13, 2019
ByNATHAN LEWIN AVI BELL RICHARD HEIDEMAN JOSEPH TIPOGRAPH, ALAN DERSHOWITZ
PM Netanyahu with Tony Blair

Israel ranks 88th in World Press Freedom index, U.S. ranked as 48th

The data shows that journalists worldwide are seeing increased fear and violence in their line of work as the media freedom continues to decline.

APRIL 19, 2019
A demonstrator holds picture of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a protest in front of Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, October 5, 2018

Netanyahu: Stop attacking journalists

Netanyahu’s invective against the media started long ago. Some have compared Netanyahu to US President Donald Trump, who has called journalists “enemies of the people.”

DECEMBER 6, 2018
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Likud Hannukah candle lighting, December 2, 2018

Freedom of the press and good taste

“What do you mean I’m an antisemite? My wife is Jewish!”

AUGUST 10, 2018
Then-US delegate to the United Nations General Assembly Eleanor Roosevelt holds the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Spanish, in 1948

Nat'l Journalists Assoc. demands inquiry into death of Gaza photographer

Yasser Murtaja, 31, was killed while covering Friday's protests in Gaza.

APRIL 8, 2018
Mortally wounded Palestinian journalist Yasser Murtaja, 31, is evacuated during clashes with Israeli troops at the Israel-Gaza border, in the southern Gaza Strip April 6, 2018.

Media Comment: Netanyahu and the press

It is this one-sidedness and lack of truth that is helping Netanyahu. Israel, though, is losing.

MARCH 14, 2018
ByYISRAEL MEDAD, ELI POLLAK
Media screens from Israeli media show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Communications Minister stops Israeli right-wing channel’s shutdown

Will Communications Minister Ayoub Kara not just successfully prevent Channel 20 from shutting down, but also change policies to allow the right-wing channel to broadcast news?

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
On air warning light lit up. (Illustrative)

Rivlin, ministers outraged as Israeli right-wing station may be shut down

Communications Minister Ayoub Kara vows channel will stay on the air.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
Ayoub Kara