Israel press

Press watchdog: Israel still blocking independent foreign reporting in Gaza despite ceasefire

The Foreign Press Association said the government had failed to present any plan that would allow journalists to operate independently in Gaza or work alongside Palestinian reporters.

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Defense Minister Israel Katz over a backdrop of Army Radio building.

Katz says gov't will approve shutdown of Army Radio today after 75 years of broadcasting

 The Knesset Economic Committee meets at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 18, 2024.

Karhi presents revamped program for partial Kan privatization

 IDF Spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari delivers Sunday evening public address. March 24, 2024.

Is Israel losing the war against Hamas in Gaza? - opinion


Yoram Binur: Israeli journalist penetrating the Arab world

Binur, 68, grew up in Jerusalem’s Katamon neighborhood. The path he took, which led to his engagement with the Arab community, was quite a unique one.

 YORAM BINUR: In the news years.

‘Scary time for Israeli democracy’: experts alarmed at threatened closure of public broadcaster

Media world hits back at plans to cut state funding for Kan as communications minister says ‘no place for public broadcasting in Israel’; academic warns country may be heading down ‘dangerous path.’

 Members of the Israeli media protest at a busy intersection in downtown Tel Aviv over the govenrment's plans to cut funding to the national public broadcaster, Jan. 29, 2023.

Here's how Israel can work toward a national consensus - editorial

Is there a world in which the government shared its plans before moving ahead?

 More than 100,000 protestors fill Habima Square in Tel Aviv in protest against Netanyahu's government reforms.

Union of Journalists in Israel stands by Russian, Ukrainian journalists

The Union of Journalists in Israel has expressed its solidarity with both Russian and Ukrainian journalists.

Smoke rises at a TV tower following an attack by Russian forces, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 1, 2022 in this still image taken from a video obtained from social media.

Finally, introspection in the press

We are not naïve. One newspaper issue, whose readership is limited, will not change the world.

Israel Hayom newspaper

Prime ministers and relationships with media

In Britain, as in Israel, criminal law is too indiscriminate to regulate the complex relationship between media and officeholders.

PM Netanyahu with Tony Blair

Israel ranks 88th in World Press Freedom index, U.S. ranked as 48th

The data shows that journalists worldwide are seeing increased fear and violence in their line of work as the media freedom continues to decline.

A demonstrator holds picture of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a protest in front of Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, October 5, 2018

Netanyahu: Stop attacking journalists

Netanyahu’s invective against the media started long ago. Some have compared Netanyahu to US President Donald Trump, who has called journalists “enemies of the people.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Likud Hannukah candle lighting, December 2, 2018

Freedom of the press and good taste

“What do you mean I’m an antisemite? My wife is Jewish!”

Then-US delegate to the United Nations General Assembly Eleanor Roosevelt holds the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Spanish, in 1948

Nat'l Journalists Assoc. demands inquiry into death of Gaza photographer

Yasser Murtaja, 31, was killed while covering Friday's protests in Gaza.

Mortally wounded Palestinian journalist Yasser Murtaja, 31, is evacuated during clashes with Israeli troops at the Israel-Gaza border, in the southern Gaza Strip April 6, 2018.

Media Comment: Netanyahu and the press

It is this one-sidedness and lack of truth that is helping Netanyahu. Israel, though, is losing.

Media screens from Israeli media show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.