After the news site Walla!
Issued news of a request for the dismissal of the senior presenter, News 12 was quick to deny • Shortly afterwards a letter was also submitted to the site editor
Walla !, Yonit Levy website
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News 12 demands from the editor-in-chief of the Walla!
To remove the news according to the submitter Yonit Levy submitted a request for dismissal from the company's CEO and to publish a sweeping apology regarding the "false publication". If he does not do so, the company will not hesitate to go to court " "According to every law."
The letter further alleged that the conduct of the journalists was unprofessional and that there was a fear of action out of "foreign and improper considerations".
"An article just published on the website falsely claims that the presenter of the main edition of News 12, Ms. Yonit Levy, allegedly submitted her resignation from News 12 after her interview with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and that News 12 CEO, Mr. Avi Weiss, did not accept Her resignation, "the letter opens, addressed to the site's editor-in-chief, Eran Tiefenbrunn.
"This is a false and baseless publication from the beginning to the end," it was emphasized.
"Furthermore. Before making the false publication, you did not bother to check its truth with Mr. Weiss or Ms. Levy in person, but you were satisfied with asking for a response from News 12. News 12 immediately sent you a response stating that it was a false publication, subtlety".
It went on to say that "the false publication constitutes serious defamation and establishes for News 12 and Ms. Levy grounds for a lawsuit against you under the Defamation Prohibition Law."
The site is required: "Immediately remove the false publication from the site and from anywhere else where it is published", and "immediately publish an apology to News 12 and to Ms. Levy for the false publication in the same place where it was published."
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