A number of Israel Broadcasting Authority employees are ejected from a stormy meeting of the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee as they protest the delayed launch of the new state broadcaster for more than a year.
The Broadcasting Corporation was due to start in September, replacing the IBA, which is closing. But Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also acting communications minister, decided last week to wait until the beginning of 2018 to complete the launch.
One of the IBA employees is forcibly removed when he begins shouting at committee chairman MK Eitan Cabel (Zionist Union).
“I am the sole breadwinner. I have been at the [IBA] for 30 years, are you going to throw me out of my house? You are a garbage lawmaker,” he says.
The decision by Netanyahu is also criticized by Cabel and Yesh Atid MK Karin Elharar.
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