The Coalition Again Disputes Reveal
Netanyahu and Gantz
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Liron Moldovan, Gideon Markovich
Coalition friction continues as Netanyahu-Drucker clashes: Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz visited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday after attacking 13 news reporter Raviv Drucker.
"This morning also reminds journalists their role is to criticize the government. To criticize me and the other politicians. I will do everything to ensure that Israel has free, reliable, balanced and diverse communication," Gantz tweeted in the Twitter account.
The role of journalists is to visit us politicians. So it was, that's how it is now and that's how it will go. https://t.co/LdcJ2EpeEh
- Benny Gantz - Benny Gantz (@gantzbe) June 11, 2020
Minister of Communications Yoaz Handel (faction of Derech Eretz) also defended the journalist: "The role of journalists is to criticize us politicians. That was the way it is now and this will continue."
Netanyahu's attack on Drucker, whose relationship with the veteran journalist has been poor for a long time, came after the broadcast of the original program last night on recordings of the 4000 file ("Bezeq-Walla!"), Entitled "The recordings that complicated Bibi."
Netanyahu said, among other things: "In the corrected world, Reviv Drucker would go to jail today for broadcasting criminal leaks and disrupting court proceedings, but when the media's goal is to overthrow the right-wing leader, Netanyahu, at all costs - everything seems to be allowed."
This morning also reminds journalists of their role in criticizing the government. Visit me and the other politicians.
I will do everything to make Israel free, reliable, balanced and diverse.
- Yoaz Hendel Yoaz (@ YoazHendel1) June 11, 2020
The disputes between blue-white and Likud people have been going on for several weeks, in fact since the government was sworn in, and they are spread over several issues. The Torah controversy is the issue of the "regulation law" that was rejected by the High Court, when the Likud wanted to re-enact the law, but in white and blue it defended the High Court ruling.