Oshrat Kotler, anchorwoman for Channel 13 who was embroiled in a scandal last month after calling IDF soldiers "human animals," will leave her job at the TV station in June, Israeli media reported on Thursday."Kotler requested unpaid leave of a year," the reports said. Kotler came under heavy criticism last month after she referred to IDF soldiers as "human animals," following a report that army soldiers were suspected of beating detained Palestinians.console.log("catid body is "+catID);if(catID==120){document.getElementsByClassName("divConnatix")[0].style.display ="none";var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = 'https://player.anyclip.com/anyclip-widget/lre-widget/prod/v1/src/lre.js'; script.setAttribute('pubname','jpostcom'); script.setAttribute('widgetname','0011r00001lcD1i_12258'); document.getElementsByClassName('divAnyClip')[0].appendChild(script);}else if(catID!=69 && catID!=2){ document.getElementsByClassName("divConnatix")[0].style.display ="none"; var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = 'https://static.vidazoo.com/basev/vwpt.js'; script.setAttribute('data-widget-id','60fd6becf6393400049e6535'); document.getElementsByClassName('divVidazoo')[0].appendChild(script); }"The goal of the broadcast we aired on the soldiers, as well as my comments that followed, was for us, as a society, to take responsibility for the soldier's actions," Kotler said in a February broadcast. "The soldiers cannot be blamed when we are the ones who put them in this surreal daily routine in the West Bank.""I am not a politician," exclaimed Kotler tearfully, as she repeated what she had said before - that her statement was specifically referring to the five soldiers and not the entire IDF.Alon Einhorn contributed to this report.
