The Public Broadcasting Corporation declares that one of its functions is to present "diversity and tolerance."
But in the corporation council, the body responsible for determining policy, content and appointments, there is a clear Ashkenazi majority.
On the contrary, more members of the same "clique" have recently been appointed.
This week, after the appointment of two more members and the departure of council member Dalit Stauber to the post of director general of the Ministry of Education, the corporation council appointed nine members, eight of them Ashkenazi and one from the Ethiopian community.
It is also difficult to define the representatives of the dome-wearing public in the council as representatives of the conservative public.
Thus, for example, Prof. Menachem Ben Sasson was a member of the Kadima party and was considered to have liberal views.
Recently, two more members of the corporation's board were elected: Yohanan Tzangan and Yona Wiesenthal, two professionals with a rich past in the television industry, but it is difficult to say that these are diversity of opinion or representatives of other populations.
The corporation's website states that they are "tolerant and open to a variety of opinions."
The corporation's budget is about NIS 750 million a year, about 650 million of which is from state funds.
The law firm of Michael Litwok turned to the corporation with a complaint: "The composition of the council - mostly the same type of people from the same place and the same color and the same worldview." There is no representative from the Arab sector, a representative regarding the heritage of Israel and two representatives of the public - all of this, of course, does not exist. "
Sources in the Ministry of Communications told Israel Today that the model of the corporation council's appointment model entrusts the appointment process almost entirely to a search committee headed by a judge, which also includes its members. The Minister of Communications believes, From different backgrounds, reflecting the shades of Israeli society. "
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