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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 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

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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

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

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

Netanyahu slams ‘wild incitement’ against ultra-Orthodox amid pandemic

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