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Culture Minister Miri Regev at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on November 8, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/Yedioth Ahronoth/ Pool/ Flash90)
November 25, 2018, 2:20 pm
Culture ‘loyalty’ bill in jeopardy as two coalition MKs plan vote rebellion
After Yisrael Beytenu conditions support on progress for its own death penalty proposal, Regev tells Liberman ‘the national camp won’t forgive you’ for blocking her legislation
By Raoul Wootliff
MK Oren Hazan poses for a selfie with a statue of Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, November 8, 2018.(Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
November 20, 2018, 6:01 pm
Bill conditioning arts funding on ‘loyalty’ approved for final votes
Opposition warns government MKs to ‘get their sleeping bags ready’ for filibuster during next Monday’s debate on controversial legislation
By Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff
In this file photo dated August 21, 2018, a Facebook start page is shown on a smartphone in Surfside, Florida, USA. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, FILE)
September 3, 2018, 2:58 pm
UN expert warns Facebook ‘terrorism’ definition ‘overly broad’
Special rapporteur says defining all non-state groups that use violence for a goal as terrorists could lead to excessive censoring and blocking of access to platform
By AFP
Illustrative: A GoFundMe fundraising page seeking to raise enough money to buy Twitter and ban US President Donald Trump from the platform. (Screen capture: GoFundMe)
August 19, 2018, 4:35 am
​Trump alleges social media ‘censorship’ of conservatives
US president says online platforms are ‘totally discriminating,’ after internet giants curb or ban accounts of far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
By AFP
Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski poses during a photocall for the film 'Cold War (Zimna Wojna)' at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 11, 2018. (AFP Photo/Valery Hache)
May 12, 2018, 9:14 am
Polish director of Holocaust film says he’s been blacklisted by government
Pawel Pawlikowski states his Oscar-winning movie ‘Ida’ now banned in wake of law barring blaming Poles for Nazi crimes
By Sophie LAUBIE and Fiachra GIBBONS
Police tape is shown outside of a YouTube office building in San Bruno, Calif., Wednesday, April 4, 2018. (AP/Jeff Chiu)
April 5, 2018, 4:42 pm
Iranians under regime censorship perplexed by YouTube shooter’s gripes
Those living in country where access to social media is near impossible have little sympathy for Nasim Aghdam’s frustrations at having account ‘de-monetized’
By AP
In this March 14, 2018 photo, staff working for the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival walk outside their office in Cairo. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
March 18, 2018, 7:17 pm
Egypt censors play ‘Before the Revolution,’ director appeals
Rather than remove scenes, director cancels show depicting feelings of oppression and stagnation before 2011 uprising that overthrew Mubarak
By Brian Rohan
Egyptian actress Yasmin Raeis speaks during an AFP interview in the capital Cairo, on March 1, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)
March 12, 2018, 3:28 pm
Egypt filmmakers defy taboos of conservative society
From mockery of the government ban on passionate kisses to TV series on unmarried women seeing men, young generation trying to bring back ‘golden age’ of Egyptian cinema
By AFP
Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School (Screen capture: Google Maps)
March 10, 2018, 3:02 am
London Orthodox Jewish school censors references to homosexuals in textbook
State-funded Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls’ School defends its censorship policy, says it’s necessary to protect students from ‘sexualization’
By TOI staff
This photo from February 16, 2016, provided by OSN, shows actors taking a 'selfie' at the end of OSN's "Saturday Night Live Arabia," show in Cairo, Egypt. (OSN via AP)
February 13, 2018, 10:06 am
Egypt bars Arabic version of SNL over ‘ethical violations’
Regulator censors local adaptation of US satire show for ‘sexual expressions, phrases, and gestures which are not suitable for viewers’
By AFP
Laura Ben-David
November 7, 2017, 9:43 am
Laura Ben-David
The road to hell is paved with torn billboards
How is it holy to teach that women and girls should not be seen?
Sharona Margolin Halickman
October 29, 2017, 2:10 pm
Sharona Margolin Halickman
Where did all the women go?
Publishing images of women in a brochure on the importance of Rachel’s Tomb should be a no-brainer
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot gets out of a helicopter ahead of a tour of the barrier surrounding the southern West Bank on August 8, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces/Facebook)
August 8, 2017, 8:02 pm
Liberman rips rumor mill after IDF chief said killed in crash
In vacuum created by military censor, false reports spread rapidly on social media about Monday night’s helicopter accident
By Judah Ari Gross
Books hang on a column on the 'Parthenon of Books' by Argentinian artist Marta Minujin, at the Documenta 14 art exhibition, in Kassel, Germany, June 2, 2017. (AFP/John MACDOUGALL)
June 7, 2017, 4:31 pm
‘Parthenon of Books’ raised at site where Nazis torched Jewish works
Thousands of copies of banned publications form art installation, but pornography and ‘Mein Kampf’ excluded
By Yannick Pasquet
A woman, center, strips down to her bra in a show of protest to Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev during the opening of the Israeli Film Festival in Jerusalem, June 1, 2017. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
June 1, 2017, 10:37 pm
Uproar at Israel Festival opening as culture minister jeered over nudity ban
Protester strips down to her bra, audience turn their backs as Miri Regev takes to the stage to make opening remarks for top arts event
By Jessica Steinberg and AFP
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