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

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