Police summon journalist for questioning on suspicion of shoving employee for PM’s wife

Police summon journalist Aviad Glickman for questioning under caution on suspicion that he shoved an employee from Sara Netanyahu’s team during a court case in late May.

Glickman, Channel 13’s legal correspondent, was covering a hearing in a lawsuit filed by Gal Dabush, the employee for the prime minister’s wife, against a former worker at the Prime Minister’s Residence.

Footage showed him shoving Dabush while trying to get through a door at the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court, after which Likud spokesperson Guy Levy shouts at him that he will file a police complaint for assault. Glickman is then sent away from the court as Levy films him and hurls insults at the reporter, who is a staunch critic of the premier.

ביציאה מאולם הדיונים של בית משפט לענייני העבודה במשפט הדיבה של גברת שרה נתניהו נגד עובדת במעון רה"מ סילבי גנסיה כתב הפלילים אביעד גליקמן תקף עובדת מצוות של שרה נתניהו. pic.twitter.com/CxS0hAuxw6

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Now, the Israel Police’s Tel Aviv District has called Glickman for questioning under caution after getting the necessary approval from prosecutors to do so, Hebrew media reports.

Dabush claims the incident left her bruised and in pain, calling Glickman a “bully posing as a journalist” and “thinks a microphone gives him immunity.”

Bar Association head Amit Becher slams the police move.

“Summoning journalist Aviad Glickman for questioning following a complaint by an official affiliated with the leadership is worrisome,” Becher contends, voicing concern that this may be a move to intimidate journalists critical of Netanyahu and his associates.