Journalist Gil Tamari began his journalistic career 32 years ago on Army Radio and coupling "Gil Tamari, Washington" may be identified from the coverage of foreign news in Israel. Tamari stayed podcast "Tiktok" of the Israeli Institute press release.
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In 1998, Tamari left for the United States as Channel One's envoy and Kol Yisrael in Washington. With his wife Efrat, their three-year-old daughter Shai and Itai who was a one-month-old baby, they traveled for two years - three and stayed for 23 years in which he was the News 10 messenger age and then News 13 in America. He covered and documented closely the biggest events, events that changed the world: from the twin disaster, through the space shuttle crash that astronaut Ilan Ramon, who and his family closely followed for four years until the disaster, That passed there broadcast the dramatic happenings live. Tamari is also the only Israeli journalist who extracted a matter-of-fact reference from the President of Iran at the UN General Assembly. Late last summer, after countless experiences and dramatic moments, they returned to Israel. The adult children Shai and Itai stayed in America Restaurants in the United States.They documented their journey to fulfill the American dream and the decision to leave everything and return home to Israel in a special documentary that will be broadcast this week in News 13.
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In the video: Teaser for an article about the journalist Gil who returns to Israel after 23 years in the US (Photo: News 13)
"We are used to treating ourselves like the robbed Cossack, but America has stopped looking at us like David versus Goliath. We are perceived as strong in the neighborhood, as a powerhouse."
Why did you actually come back?
Isn't it better to sit in shorts at home quietly than in a studio in Neve Ilan?
"Excellent question. And when they showed me the opening they made from this 'connected' I admit I shed a tear. I closed for a very long time, for many reasons - but mainly because I feel I can still do a substantial chapter in the press in Israel. To.
There was not a single day in my life that I felt like I was going to work on it.
I'm doing my hobby. "
A bit of a cliché.
"I get excited about every item and take it seriously, and for every sit-up I prepare and know exactly what I will say on the broadcast. I like the surprises in this profession. Take for example the attempted coup in the Capitol. Mention that this is a live broadcast. And I understand what's going on - and I know I could get an explosion but I'm trying to dismantle the situation and turn it into a television. I work alone - directing myself, filming and also filming. I realized that the live broadcast was protecting me. There were no cops there and there was no defense. In the end, we parted as friends. "
Give another example of this adrenaline.
"I land in the middle of the night in Oklahoma City following news of a former Israeli woman who hired a hired killer to poison her husband with castor seeds. During a flight, I can identify who the hired killer was. This is a transgender woman whose name I was able to reach and I understand where she lives. And I get to her at 2 at night and knock on her door. I introduce myself and she starts talking to me. And she is in very severe trauma from the incident. At some point I take out the camera and interview it until 4 in the morning. Then from there he travels to the location and starts transferring materials to a desk in Israel. This is the greatest satisfaction there is in life. "
What is it that Israelis do not understand most about the United States.
"Whoever comes for two years on a mission does not understand America. Until you live there for a long time you do not understand the layers and complexity and see over the years the slow processes that only today explode before our eyes. To Trump, how Israel loses its grip on certain wings of the Democratic Party Also for political extremism in the United States - for reactionaries who want to end democracy in America in a format we are familiar with. On the other hand, the disengagement of growing parts of American politics from Israel. This is not something that is going to change but only to exacerbate. These trends will continue. The progressiveness on the left, which will harm Israel no less than other discoveries. "
What is the main thing that has changed in relation to Israel?
"We are used to treating ourselves like the robbed Cossack, but America has stopped looking at us like David versus Goliath. We are perceived as strong in the neighborhood, as an economic power, a high-tech power. For them we are nothing like our neighbors so the task is upon us. At the moment: You are the strongest - do something about it. "
How do you explain that the Republican Party failed to produce a worthy candidate for Trump?
"There is no Republican Party, there is the Trump Party. The Republican Party is dead. Not Gil Tamari says that, but former Republican Party members who have been real Republicans all their lives say that. Trump was a Democrat who discovered the possibility of taking over a party with a certain agenda, and its followers Today they are people who want and admire Trump, and he controls the party and does not let the next generation run in. Nicky Haley, for example, a woman worthy of everything, could run in the next election and possibly be the president in 2024, but she can not even launch a campaign. "Anyone who does not come and kiss the ring - can not move forward."
"Trump kills her."
Nicki Haley (Photo: AP)
"There will always be consumers of facts"
"In terms of profitability, there is no doubt that Trump has caused a boom in serious newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post that have garnered unprecedented numbers of subscribers and readers in the digital age simply because they were looking for a reliable source.
Paradoxically, because of this conduct of Trump, the American media actually flourished during his time. Do you recognize a trend change?
"In terms of profitability, there is no doubt that Trump has caused a boom in serious newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post that have garnered unprecedented numbers of subscribers and readers in the digital age simply because they sought a credible source. But on the other hand, OEN D.O.) which presents false information packaged as investigations, and the innocent viewer sees and is sure it really is. I know in the US families whose parents do not talk to their children because the children are progressive or democratic and the parents went captive after Trumpism. It tears families apart and an issue that divides American society. I believe that there will always be consumers of facts, and there will always be those who want the alternative reality. "
Do you see the resemblance to Israel?
"It simply came to our notice then.
We were on our way there.
Netanyahu, because he is much smarter than Trump, managed to take all of Trump's models and leverage them into his Israeli political apparatus - and it worked very, very well.
On the other hand, the level of factual alternation did not reach the level it was in the United States.
On the other hand, Trump did not try to take over the media, as happened here.
"It's true. There is no bribery case under investigation. But there are journalists who work in the media as recruits on behalf of and expect them to work for the party. They have no idea what a press is. They have a certain opinion that they bother to spread it."
"The presenters did get vaccinated."
Fox News (Photo: Screenshot, Fox News)
"I'm so an outsider that even if my chair rocked I did not know about it"
"Even today, if you watch Fox News, you get the impression that you should not be vaccinated, even though the presenters did get vaccinated. It's part of what started as 'Pike Plague,' they continue because they know it's what brings them ratings."
Corona. Do you see a difference between mainstream coverage here versus the US?
”Depending on where you look. Even today, if you watch Fox News, you get the impression that you should not get vaccinated, even though the presenters did get vaccinated. It's part of what started as "Pike Plague", they continue because they know it's what brings them ratings. In contrast, CNN America has almost completely given up on a broadcast schedule. Instead of investigations and serious journalistic work they became the Corona Channel. This is the second bad choice from the other side of the barricade. Important newspapers have dose is true with embossed large epidemic has not yet come out and pay the economic consequences of her. "
Network 13 has six months ago rocked with sweeping cutbacks in the news. Did you feel it overseas? Your chair rocked?
" I'm so outsider that If my chair rocked I did not know about it. Maybe he's also rocking right now and I do not know that. "
But you knew what was going on here.
"Certainly, because I read you and your colleagues the media, and I was very hurt by the stain of good and worthy journalists like Akiva Novik and Barak Ravid that I worked with and appreciate them to this day."
And what about the central criticism of some of those fired that Network 13 is trying to flatter babysitters?
"I felt nothing. My articles were never censored or changed anything for me. The facts are that to this day in every 32 years of electronic media journalism I have never changed a line I stood behind."
