Union boss smiles on public broadcaster compromise

Histadrut labor federation head Avi Nissenkorn is praising a compromise reached between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon to open a new public broadcasting corporation in April 2017.

Netanyahu announced last week that the new corporation was not ready and would only be opened in 2018, setting off vociferous protests from workers, including a brawl that nearly erupted during a Knesset panel discussion on the matter on Sunday.

“The solution that’s been presented is a balanced solution. The corporation will start broadcasting with much more of a presence and that’s for the good of the public,” he says, according to Army Radio. “At the end of the day, we all come out of this better.”