Israel press

Israel's broadcasting law poses 'grave risk,' A-G says, urging High Court to hear petitions

In a preliminary High Court response, the attorney-general said the government bypassed legal safeguards in the Broadcasting Law and asked for early intervention to halt a rare governance breakdown.

Attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, in the Israeli parliament on September 30, 2025.
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Press watchdog: Israel still blocking independent foreign reporting in Gaza despite ceasefire

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


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.

Communications Minister stops Israeli right-wing channel’s shutdown

Will Communications Minister Ayoub Kara not just successfully prevent Channel 20 from shutting down, but also change policies to allow the right-wing channel to broadcast news?

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Rivlin, ministers outraged as Israeli right-wing station may be shut down

Communications Minister Ayoub Kara vows channel will stay on the air.

Ayoub Kara

Israeli Communications Minister: I will shut down Al-Jazeera, period

"If they want to open their mouths, they can do it at the dentist," said Communications Minister Ayoub Kara to The Jerusalem Post about Qatari-funded international news channel Al Jazeera.

AN EMPLOYEE working inside the office of Qatar-based Al- Jazeera network in Jerusalem watches the news, last month.

Does the politicization of Israeli journalism pose a threat to democracy?

"30, 50, 70 percent of the advertising pages" in Israel Hayom are government-bought, according to Yediot Aharonot publisher Amnon Mozes.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters a security cabinet meeting, August 2017

Israel weighs reversing decision to pull Al Jazeera reporter's credentials

Karam had been threatened with having his credentials lifted due to an interview he gave to the Muslim Brotherhood television station in May.

The logo of Al Jazeera Media Network is seen on its headquarters building in Doha, Qatar June 8, 2017.

Press Council head calls Netanyahu's attack on media 'pathetic'

"Making the press into the enemy of the nation is anti-democratic," Dalia Dorner said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a rally.

Foreign Press Association petitions Israel's High Court over interference

The FPA regards journalists' treatment as “a shameful performance for a country that boasts that it is the Middle East’s only democracy and claims to be committed to freedom of the press.”

Palestinians walk next to Israeli security forces at the entrance of the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount at morning after Israel removed the new security measures there, in Jerusalem's Old City

Government declarations about diversity in media are a deception

Netanyahu and his right-wing government’s desire to restrict the media and to use it for their own needs is transparent.

PALESTINIANS GATHER in a coffee ship in Hebron, where a TV screen shows US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participating in a joint press conference in February.