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Akunis questions fellow Likud minister Karhi’s plan to shut public broadcaster
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Science Minister Ofir Akunis arrives for a Likud party meeting in Jerusalem on May 28, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Science Minister Ofir Akunis pushes back against the stated plan of fellow Likud Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi to shut down the state’s public broadcaster, known as Kan.
“In democracies there is public broadcasting… the money for the Kan public broadcaster is taxpayer money,” Akunis tells Army Radio, which has also been on Karhi’s agenda to close down.
“And we, as elected officials, along with Communications Minister Karhi, need to decide where public money should go,” he adds.
Karhi said last week that there is “no place” for public broadcasting in Israel.
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