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The entrance to the Channel 12 office in Tel Aviv after an attacker launched a brick at it overnight, on July 5, 2026. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 5, 2026, 5:57 pm
Door to Channel 12 news offices smashed by masked assailant in Tel Aviv
Media outlet says it is ‘shocked but not surprised,’ calls on police and the government to counter rising tide of incitement against journalists in Israel
By ToI Staff
Israeli journalist Dan Margalit in Tel Aviv, March 14, 2017 (Gideon Markowicz/POOL)
August 28, 2025, 9:07 pm
Dan Margalit, veteran political reporter and TV news host, dies at 87
Longtime reporter exposed illegal US bank account held by Rabin and his wife in 1977, leading Labor to first-ever election defeat; in 2018 he was accused of sexually harassing 5 women
By ToI Staff
Babak Itzhaki, the Israel correspondent for Iran International, appears in a television interview for Channel 14, December 22, 2024. (Screen capture via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 30, 2024, 1:26 am
Tehran sought to lure Iranian-Israeli journalist to Turkey, kidnap him – report
Iran International’s Israel correspondent Babak Itzhaki: ‘I tip my hat to the security services, they’re watching over me’; IRGC tried, failed to recruit prisoner in Armenia for plot
By ToI Staff
Israeli journalist Amir Tibon's 'The Gates of Gaza' retells his family's experience on October 7 and his country's experience since. (Courtesy: Tibon via JTA)
September 7, 2024, 12:22 pm
Israeli journalist Amir Tibon survived the Oct. 7 massacre. He worries the country won’t
The story of a reporter’s family from Kibbutz Nahal Oz has gained traction as their rescue by father Noam, a retired major general, highlights some of the day’s lifesaving heroism
By Ben Sales
Family members visit the site of the Supernova music festival massacre, six month after the October 7 Hamas terror assault, in Re'im forest, near the Gaza border, April 7, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 25, 2024, 7:56 pm
AP says damages suit for use of Oct. 7 freelancer photo ‘fatal blow’ to press freedom
AP and Reuters call on Jerusalem court to dismiss lawsuit seeking NIS 25 million against the agencies for using photos taken by Palestinian freelancers during October 7 atrocities
By Jeremy Sharon
President Isaac Herzog speaks to foreign journalists at his residence in Jerusalem on October 12, 2023. (Amy Spiro/Times of Israel)
October 12, 2023, 2:07 pm
Herzog blasts media for not calling Hamas ‘terrorists’ and downplaying terror threat
Briefing foreign reporters, president says those who complained of a ‘disproportionate response’ in Gaza should now understand ‘what a false interpretation of the reality that was’
By Amy Spiro
Police escort Channel 12 news reporter Gilad Shalmor during a pro-overhaul rally in Tel Aviv, July 23, 2024. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 24, 2023, 4:45 pm
After series of attacks on reporters at rallies, TV regulator demands police action
Second Authority for Television and Radio urges cops to bring about ‘eradication of this phenomenon’ as journalists from 4 main networks targeted at pro- and anti-overhaul protests
By ToI Staff
A man, right, snatches the covering off the microphone of Channel 13 reporter Talya Cohen before pepper spraying the team of journalists, in Tel Aviv, May 10, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 10, 2023, 5:20 pm
TV news crew attacked in Tel Aviv as right wing fumes over Gaza coverage
Union of Journalists condemns latest in series of assaults against Channel 13 staff, links it to incitement following onscreen text appearing to blame PM for civilian deaths
By ToI Staff
The main headquarters in Jerusalem of the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation, known as Kan, seen on January 31, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 11, 2023, 2:01 pm
No Kan do: How Israel’s public broadcaster ended up in the government’s firing line
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi has vowed to drastically cut funding from Kan in a bid to engender competition, but observers say his plans are misguided and dangerous
By Amy Spiro
Channel 13 reporters and film crew heckled as they report from the scene of a terror attack in Jerusalem, January 28, 2023. (Twitter/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 29, 2023, 11:20 pm
Man arrested for attacking, threatening reporters at site of Jerusalem terror attack
Police chief Kobi Shabtai says he expects further arrests in the coming days after mob threatened Channel 13 crew: ‘We must bring sanity back to the country’
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Boaz Bismuth speaks during a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem, January 17, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 23, 2023, 8:18 am
Ex-top journalist’s 1st bill as Likud MK would ban airing recordings without consent
Boaz Bismuth, former editor of Israel Hayom daily, slammed by journalists and lawmakers on left and right for proposal that would hinder unmasking of swindlers, politicians’ lies
By Michael Bachner
Haredi journalist Yisrael Frey appears on Democrat TV in 2020. (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 27, 2022, 6:12 pm
Far-left journalist arrested over tweets praising Palestinian attackers
Yisrael Frey, who said man who planned Tel Aviv terror attack is a ‘hero,’ questioned under caution after ignoring summonses, police say; critics decry ‘political arrest’
By ToI Staff
Arab-Israeli journalist Nidal Agbaria (Courtesy)
September 4, 2022, 11:40 pm
Arab-Israeli journalist who covered violent crime shot dead in car in Umm al-Fahm
Local reporter Nidal Agbaria, who was targeted in an assassination attempt last year, killed as he drove home from mosque
By ToI Staff
Middle East reporter Josh Mitnick (Courtesy FB page)
August 29, 2021, 11:13 am
Veteran Mideast correspondent Josh Mitnick dies at 50
Israel-based, US native’s work appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor and Foreign Policy; he is mourned as ‘an incredible journalist’
By ToI Staff
Travelers seen in the departure hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on July 19, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 1, 2021, 8:05 pm
Journalists from banned COVID countries cannot directly enter Israel
Reporters with work permits who come from 14 off-limits nations must first spend two weeks in another country before being granted entry
By ToI Staff
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