Channel 12

Supporters of Hezbollah attend a televised speech by the Lebanese terror group's leader Hassan Nasrallah during a ceremony to lay the foundation for a site for 'jihadist tourism,' at a camp formerly run by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Lebanon to train Hezbollah fighters, in the Janta region in the east of the country on August 19, 2022. (AFP)

September 10, 2022, 10:35 pm

Report: IDF sees ‘reasonable possibility’ of clash with Hezbollah over gas dispute

Document said by Channel 12 to be drawn up by Northern Command says Iran-backed terror group could seek confrontation to extricate itself from internal problems

By TOI staff

Screen capture from video of US President Joe Biden, left, speaking with Channel 12 News anchor Yonit Levi at the White House in Washington, in an interview broadcast July 13, 2022. (Channel 12 News)

July 13, 2022, 10:57 pm

US would use force against Iran ‘as last resort,’ Biden tells Israeli TV

President to Channel 12: Trump’s nuke deal exit a ‘gigantic mistake’; a ‘few, wrong’ Dems call Israel apartheid state; Israeli acceptance in region will enable Palestinian progress

By TOI staff

Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi from Monsey, New York, tells Channel 12 News's Rafi Reshef that he does not retract his remarks on Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman, June 1, 2022. (Channel 12 News)

June 2, 2022, 4:27 pm

NY rabbi says Bennett should be skewered, would welcome Liberman’s death

Israel-born Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi calls PM a ‘devil’ who should be ‘silenced’ by a spear, says finance minister’s death would bring ‘eternal happiness’

By TOI staff

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a party meeting at the Knesset, on May 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 28, 2022, 1:46 am

Netanyahu-led opposition bloc gains ground with voters, nearing majority, poll finds

Survey gives bloc led by ex-PM 59 seats, to current coalition’s 55, with mainly Arab Joint List holding balance; most voters think government will collapse within 6 months

By TOI staff

A Channel 12 cameraman and reporter follow an IDF soldier into a home in Tel Aviv during the manhunt for the attacker on April 7, 2022. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

April 8, 2022, 5:57 pm

Security forces lash media for terror attack coverage: ‘Turned into a reality show’

Police, IDF and Shin Bet say news broadcasts of manhunt for terrorist in Tel Aviv gave information ‘to the enemy,’ revealed secrets about special forces

By Emanuel Fabian

Still from a Channel 12 news segment on February 7, 2022 on "how to try to protect your cellphone" from hacking. (screenshot)

February 8, 2022, 1:26 am

Israeli TV gives viewers ‘helpful’ tips on how to prevent their phones being hacked

With police alleged to use spyware against citizens, Channel 12 offers guidelines by Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based firm banned in US over ties to Russian security services, hackers

By TOI staff

Anchors and presenters of Now 14, the TV news channel in Israel formerly at Channel 20, and known for its right-wing, Fox News-like viewpoints (Courtesy Channel 14)

January 14, 2022, 3:20 pm

Repositioned news channel 14 aims for mainstream while keeping pro-Netanyahu script

The former Channel 20 is trying to make itself into a true conservative alternative to news channels 12 and 13, but critics say doing so will mean breaking with the former PM

By Jessica Steinberg

Likud MK David Bitan (L) speaks with coalition whip Idit Silman (Yamina) during a Knesset plenum session in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

July 28, 2021, 12:40 am

Likud announces boycott of coalition whip, claiming she secretly recorded MKs

TV reporter calls claim ‘nonsense,’ says Silman, during interview, quickly went to vote, turning off mic she had on her; coalition bill to extend housing panel said in danger

By Michael Bachner

MK Yaakov Litzman attends a plenary session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 26, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

July 27, 2021, 10:45 am

Litzman accuses coalition whip Silman of secretly recording MKs for news outlet

Reporter for Channel 12 dismisses allegation, says they were filming Yamina lawmaker when she had to quickly go and vote, so she switched off microphone and entered the plenum

By TOI staff

Journalist Roni Daniel on March 1, 2016. (Arielinson/Wikipedia CC-BY-SA-4.0)

July 26, 2021, 3:12 pm

Roni Daniel, one of Israel’s most prominent journalists, dies at 73

Veteran military correspondent for country’s most popular news network dies after cardiac arrest; PM: ‘He combined journalism with patriotism and Zionism’

By TOI staff

A Facebook post depicting Channel 12 anchors Yonit Levy (left) and Rina Matsliah as Muslim women. (Facebook screenshot)

May 25, 2021, 11:56 pm

Israeli media outlets demand Facebook, Twitter tackle anti-press incitement

Letters to CEOs of social media behemoths cite tweets and posts in which journalists threatened or verbally assaulted, amid troubling rise in attacks on reporters

By TOI staff and Agencies

Police shoving reporters near the scene of a car ramming attack in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem on May 16, 2021. (Yossi Zamir/FLASH90)

May 19, 2021, 11:29 am

Covering unrest from up close, Israel’s journalists increasingly in line of fire

At least 20 members of the media have been assaulted while reporting on raging national discord, and one channel has given extra security to anchors as threats proliferate online

By Tal Schneider

Yair Netanyahu, son of then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court in Tel Aviv on March 10, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

April 1, 2021, 12:58 am

PM’s son intimates Channel 12 second only to Nazi propaganda in ‘damage to Jews’

Yair Netanyahu’s incendiary tweet against leading news outlet is latest in long line of provocative remarks on social media

By TOI staff

United Torah Judaism leader Moshe Gafni, at the opening event of its election campaign, ahead of the Israeli elections, in Jerusalem, on February 12, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 8, 2021, 5:53 am

UTJ head doesn’t rule out sitting with Lapid, will ‘probably’ back Netanyahu

But Moshe Gafni walks out of Channel 12 interview while denying Haredim are disproportionately violating health rules: ‘I don’t accept this incitement, we’ve had it’

By TOI staff

Black Cube's internet homepage (screenshot)

November 26, 2020, 7:22 am

Black Cube to pay Israeli TV network £350,000 after dropping UK libel suit

British court orders private intelligence firm to compensate Channel 12, journalists for legal fees after it withdrew major lawsuit against exposés on its activities

By TOI staff