Golan Yozhpaz, the CEO of Channel 10 News, confirms that the new chairman of the company’s board of directors, Rami Sadan, made disparaging remarks about the Shas party and Mizrahi Israelis.
Yochpaz is the first person who was present in the meeting to confirm that Sadan indeed made the statements attributed to him in a Haaretz report this morning. Sadan has vehemently denied the report, which sparked a coalition crisis with Shas.
“After a firestorm that’s lasted for hours, it should be stated clearly: Rami Sadan told the members of the board and me, ‘I hate Shas and Deri just like you in the elites,'” Yochpaz tweets.
“He added: ‘We must get to Pirhia from Sderot.’ His comments were interrupted. Any other description is a distortion of the truth.”
Pirhia is an Israeli woman’s name that is most common among older Israeli Mizrahi women. Sadan was said to have stated that despite the fact that he and others in the meeting were “eiltes,” they had to make an effort to create programming that appealed to a lower common denominator.
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