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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 366

Amnon Abramovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, on November 20, 2019 (left); Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit addresses the press in Jerusalem, on November 21, 2019. (Gali Tibon; Menahem Kahana/AFP)
January 22, 2022, 12:00 am
AG said to have agreed deal for Netanyahu to quit politics for just 2 years, reneged
Reports say Mandelblit backed away from offer amid scathing criticism from state prosecution colleagues, is now demanding ‘moral turpitude’ clause which spells 7-year ban for ex-PM
By ToI Staff
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
August 14, 2020, 11:57 pm
Trump misspoke in saying Israel is suspending ‘settlements,’ meant annexation
President’s reference to Jerusalem ostensibly agreeing to a settlement freeze was a slip, Times of Israel told
By Eric Cortellessa
Screen capture from video as journalist and commentator Amnon Abramovich, center, is escorted by police after he was surrounded by a mob at a right-wing protest in Tel Aviv, June 20, 2002. (Twitter)
June 24, 2020, 10:50 am
Police extract veteran journalist from hostile mob at right-wing protest
President Rivlin condemns verbal assault on Channel 12’s Amnon Abramovich; Gantz says journalists must not be threatened, for democracy’s sake
By Stuart Winer
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at conference at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan on March 28, 2019. (Flash90)
April 15, 2019, 10:03 am
AG denies ‘unprofessional considerations’ in investigations of politicians
Comments apparently directed at speculation that prosecutors could seek stiffer penalty for PM on corruption charges if he appoints Supreme Court critic as justice minister
By ToI Staff
An Arab Israeli man (L) registers before voting in elections for the Knesset on April 9, 2019, at a school turned polling station in the northern town of Tayibe. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
April 9, 2019, 6:36 pm
Turnout very low among Arab Israeli voters, pollsters say
Hadash-Ta’al slate calls reports of significant drop in voting rates ‘an emergency,’ warning of ‘a very serious blow to Arab representation’
By ToI Staff and Adam Rasgon
Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right. (Gili Yaari, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 28, 2019, 7:15 pm
Fake news hits new high as bots, trolls continue to bat for Netanyahu – report
Vocativ media company’s ninth weekly summary finds that Blue and White leader Gantz still leads as target of most negative false news online
By Sue Surkes
Amnon Abramovitch at a Peace Now convention in Tel Aviv on July 24, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 24, 2019, 12:33 am
PM distances self from ‘stupid’ Likud spot mocking reporter’s appearance
Netanyahu says he didn’t know about clip on wounded IDF vet Amnon Abramovitch beforehand, rails against media’s ‘one-sided hypocrisy’
By ToI Staff
Likud TV propaganda channel segment mocks appearance of journalist Amnon Abramovich, who was wounded during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, March 22, 2019. At left, an actor made up to look like Abramovitch; at right, Likud TV presenter Eliraz Sadeh (Screen grab)
March 23, 2019, 12:25 pm
PM, Likud slammed for TV show mocking appearance of journalist burned in ’73 war
Post promoting interview with actor made-up to resemble Amnon Abramovitch, wounded driving tank in Yom Kippur War, deleted from PM’s Facebook page; disabled veterans plan protest
By ToI Staff
A Yesh Atid election campaign poster at the Glilot junction outside Tel Aviv criticizing 'incitement,' designed to look like it is plastered over a Likud poster attacking journalists, January 25, 2019. (Yesh Atid)
January 25, 2019, 9:33 am
Yesh Atid plasters billboard to slam Likud campaign’s ‘incitement’ against press
‘You came to incite — we came to change,’ reads new sign, designed to look as if it is glued over Likud hoarding accusing journalists of seeking to sway elections
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjmain Netanyahu attacks the media in a video posted to Twitter, January 23, 2019. (screenshot)
January 23, 2019, 10:30 pm
Netanyahu derides Israel’s top 2 TV news stations as ‘propaganda channels’
In fresh attack on media, PM says Channels 12 and 13 seek to ‘brainwash’ public into ousting him, installing ‘left-wing regime’; lawyers demand probe of leaks from investigations
By ToI Staff
An election campaign poster for the Likud party featuring journalists (L-R) Raviv Drucker, Guy Peleg, Amnon Abramovich and Ben Caspit, saying, "They will not decide. You will decide" in central Israel, January 20, 2019. (Twitter)
January 20, 2019, 1:33 pm
Likud proudly claims campaign against journalists who report on Netanyahu cases
PM and his ruling party say they are behind anonymous poster accusing members of the press of seeking to sway elections
By Raoul Wootliff
A screen capture from a video on the Facebook account "they will not decide" depicts journalists (L-R) Raviv Drucker, Guy Peleg, Amnon Abramovich and Ben Caspit. (Screen capture: Facebook)
January 19, 2019, 11:04 pm
‘They will not decide’: Likud said behind billboard targeting journalists
Anonymous poster appears to accuse leading reporters of seeking to sway elections, probes against PM; Meretz tells State Comptroller it violates electoral law
By ToI Staff
Haaretz op ed writer Yossi Klein (Screen capture Channel 2)
April 15, 2017, 1:39 am
Haaretz columnist stands by claim religious Zionists worse than Hezbollah
But Yossi Klein laments that ‘this op-ed presents me in a light that is not true. I see myself as patriotic’
By ToI Staff
Editor-in-Chief of Israeli newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, Ron Yaron, speaks at the opening of a conference at the Jerusalem Convention Center, March 28, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 15, 2017, 9:01 am
Yedioth editor: We would have walked if publisher made deal with PM
Amid new revelations about Arnon Mozes negotiating with Netanyahu to sideline some writers, Ron Yaron says staff would have quit en masse, but defends boss as still ‘utterly loyal’
By ToI Staff
Benjamin Netanyahu and Arnon Mozes (Composite image: Flash90)
January 14, 2017, 9:23 pm
Netanyahu, in secret talks with publisher, named ‘hostile’ journalists he wanted sidelined
Latest leaks reportedly feature Yedioth’s Arnon Mozes assuring Netanyahu that the deal they’re cooking up will ensure he remains PM
By ToI Staff
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