A lawmaker from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party asks Attorney General Avichai Mandeblit to investigate a journalist, following a report on a corruption case in which the premier faces criminal charges.
Besides Channel 13’s Raviv Drucker, MK Shlomo Karai also urges Mandelblit to investigate the network’s legal analysts Aviad Glickman and Baruch Kra, according to a letter published by Channel 20.
All three of the journalists have reported extensively on the graft cases Netanyahu was indicted in.
“Freedom of the press is incredibly important in a democracy; however, it’s also forbidden for journalists to tamper with witnesses and distort a trial,” Karai writes on Twitter.
Karai’s entreaty to Mandelblit comes just days after Netanyahu retweeted a Likud statement saying Drucker belongs in jail.
Asked about this during a press conference, Netanyahu said jailing journalists is “absurd,” but went on to suggest that Drucker should indeed be questioned by police.
The Likud statement was later deleted from the party’s and Netanyahu’s Twitter pages.
Likud MK Shlomo Karai at a Knesset committee meeting on January 13, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
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