Likud’s legal adviser, Advocate Avi Halevi, made an urgent demand to the management of the Public Broadcasting Corporation on Thursday, after his management decided to shelve an interview conducted yesterday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the “Makhan” station in Arabic, requesting that the interview be filmed and stored.
According to Halevy, the reason why the interview was not broadcast is the fact that the prime minister was not interviewed in the studio of the news edition of “Here 11”, and this decision is contrary to the Israeli Public Broadcasting Law and joins other cases in which the corporation violated the law.
The Broadcasting Corporation has in recent days refused to interview Netanyahu on “Here Monday” and on the Russian-language radio station RAKA, this, it was alleged, in order to “squeeze” an interview with the prime minister for their news edition.
The Likud stated that “this is a scandalous and political conduct by the management of the broadcasting corporation funded out of the pockets of Israeli citizens. If the corporation shelves the interview and does not broadcast – the Likud will petition the court tonight demanding the publication of the materials immediately.”
“Here” responded: “The prime minister is invited to be a guest on all the corporation’s platforms. ‘Here’ is waiting to be interviewed on public television in Hebrew as he did on all the commercial channels, and wonders why he ignores ‘Here 11’ viewers.”