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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boards a plane to go on an official state visit to Poland on June 12, 2013. (Kobi Gideon / GPO /Flash 90
September 11, 2020, 9:02 am
With PM flying to US on private plane, Israeli TV set to keep reporters home
Denied briefings by Netanyahu en route and confined to hotel, three main networks plan to rely on their US-based journalists to cover Tuesday’s signing of Israel-UAE deal
By TOI staff
The Deputy Chairman of the Dubai Police and General Security, Lt. General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim during an interview with Israel's Channel 12 on August 15, 2020. (Screenshot)
August 16, 2020, 8:55 am
Ex-Dubai police chief who blamed Mossad for killing Hamas man praises new ties
Dhahi Khalfan Tamim notoriously railed against alleged Jewish control of US, but has also previously urged Arab alliance with Israel and said Jews shouldn’t be treated as enemies
By TOI staff
Channel 12 news anchor Dana Weiss during a conference in Tel Aviv on September 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 9, 2020, 1:51 pm
After legal threat, Yair Netanyahu sorry he implied anchor slept her way to job
PM’s son says his tweets about Dana Weiss were ‘baseless’ in apology retweeted by the premier; announcing lawsuit in May, Channel 12 said PM’s son made ‘misogynist comments’
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) is interviewed by Rina Matsliah on Channel 12, September 14, 2019. (Channel 12 screenshot)
June 21, 2020, 3:05 pm
Anchor suspended for saying Likud voters would back PM even if he was a rapist
Likud MKs called for her to be axed, but Channel 12 opts to remove Rina Matsliah from broadcast for a week after her on-air comments about Netanyahu
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) is interviewed by Rina Matsliah on Channel 12, September 14, 2019. (Channel 12 screenshot)
June 21, 2020, 6:18 am
Anchor blasted for saying Likud voters would back PM even if he were a rapist
Netanyahu calls Channel 12’s Rina Matsliah an ‘absolute disgrace’ after she claims supporters said they’d vote for him ‘even if he raped my daughter’
By TOI staff
Channel 12 news anchor Dana Weiss during a conference in Tel Aviv on September 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
May 26, 2020, 9:14 pm
Network, anchor to sue Netanyahu’s son for intimating she slept her way into job
Channel 12 news calls Yair Netanyahu’s tweets about Dana Weiss ‘slanderous, misogynist,’ say they ‘even rise to sexual harassment’
By TOI staff
Secretary-general of the Israel Teachers' Union Yaffa Ben-David speaks during a protest event in Tel Aviv on August 29, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 20, 2020, 4:51 pm
Teacher’s Union chief draws outrage, and support, after fiery TV appearance
Parents, others lambaste Yaffa Ben-David for railing against Education Ministry’s plan to shorten summer break amid pandemic; others laud her for defending teachers’ rights
By TOI staff
Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman holds a press conference in Neve Ilan, near Jerusalem, on March 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 6, 2020, 12:33 pm
Liberman: Ultra-Orthodox politicians ‘endangering public health’
Yisrael Beytenu chair berates Haredi political leadership after both Netanyahu and Rivlin warn against blaming community for coronavirus outbreak
By Raoul Wootliff
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past an electoral billboard bearing a portrait of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem, on April 1, 2019. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
April 5, 2020, 8:53 pm
Senior TV anchor in trouble for saying LIkud
PM’s denunciation comes at height of furious social media campaign against Channel 12 and its reporter Rina Matzliah, who said community does not respect state’s authority
By Michael Bachner
Palestinian health professionals standing in a quarantine facility in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem on April 3, 2020. (Credit: Wafa)
April 3, 2020, 11:29 pm
PA announces 22 new virus cases, raising total of confirmed infections to 193
PM Shtayyeh says Israeli Health Ministry apologized to PA for ‘unofficial statements,’ in apparent reference to report about Israel needing to ‘medically annex’ West Bank
By Adam Rasgon
Security forces and municipality workers outside a building targeted by an airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus' Mazzeh neighborhood overnight on November 12, 2019. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
March 1, 2020, 8:34 am
Defense minister admits for first time Israel behind November Syria strike
Bennett reveals during TV interview that IDF ‘struck in Damascus’ on November 12, an hour after attack in Gaza that touched off a round of violence
By TOI staff
Defense Minister Naftali Bennett (L) walks out of an interview with Channel 12's Rina Matzliah on February 28, 2020. (Screen capture: Channel 12)
February 28, 2020, 7:58 pm
Bennett storms out of TV interview after feud with host over rocket statistics
Channel 12 says defense minister left studio after refusing to address his inaccurate statistics on Gaza missiles; he claims interviewer trying to hurt his party ahead of election
By TOI staff
Then-Israeli PM Ehud Olmert meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in Jerusalem, on November 17, 2008. (Moshe Milner GPO/Flash90)
February 6, 2020, 8:14 pm
Olmert to join Abbas in US press conference next week, Palestinian envoy says
Television station reports former Israeli premier expected to state his opposition to Trump’s plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
By Adam Rasgon
Meretz MK Issawi Freij seen here in a Meretz event from December 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)
January 13, 2020, 10:41 pm
Ex-MK blasts Meretz-Labor merger: ‘Arabs want to be partners. Not decorations’
Issawi Frej, pushed down to No.11 on newly unified list, accuses Meretz chief Horowitz, who brokered deal with Labor-Gesher, of acting against his party’s principles
By Adam Rasgon
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting at the presidential compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 6, 2019. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
December 30, 2019, 9:40 pm
‘A strange paradox’: Abbas derides Israel for softening on Hamas, punishing PA
PA president says informal ceasefire understandings with Gaza rulers are being implemented while PA is ‘squeezed’ on a daily basis
By Adam Rasgon
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