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Emily Amroussi: I was fired from "Israel Today" because I visited the former Prime Minister

Journalist Emily Amroussi is suing Israel Today, claiming that she was fired for expressing support for Bennett and criticizing Netanyahu in her program here on Monday.

The indictment reveals how much Amrusi earned in the newspaper, which is considered a loss these years

David Wertheim

26/12/2021

Sunday, 26 December 2021, 13:03 Updated: 13:49

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Journalist Emily Amroussi is demanding NIS 270,000 from the Israel Hayom newspaper, claiming that she was fired after criticizing former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and supporting the current Naftali Bennett. The lawsuit was reported on News1.

According to the Seventh Eye website, Amrusi claims that the termination of her employment was due to foreign political considerations. According to her, on December 11, 2020, in a program she presented here on Monday called "Emily and the Professor" alongside Prof. Yuval Elbashan, she dared for the first time direct criticism of the then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the newspaper did not like it. According to Amrusi, a week later, "she expressed an opinion against Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu while revealing unequivocal support for Mr. Naftali Bennett, the prime minister today and then head of the 'right' party."

She claims that five days later, on 23.12.20, she was summoned to a hearing after which she was fired.

Amrusi was fired in 2019, after a decade at the newspaper, where she had a regular column in the weekly supplement.

The lawsuit also reveals Amrusi's monthly salary, which was NIS 22,000 gross for the weekly column and gradually increased to NIS 25,000, as well as NIS 2,000 for each additional article she wrote for the weekend supplements and another NIS 800 for opinion columns.

As you may recall, in those years Israel was today considered a loss, and according to publications, Adelson lost from its establishment until 2014 about NIS 730 million - NIS per copy printed.

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The strong connection between Bismuth and Netanyahu

Among other things, Amrusi also points to the strong connection between the newspaper's editor and the former prime minister, and between the two and the publisher Israel Today - a connection that is extensively reviewed by the media sections, and even surfaced as part of the Alps affair in which Netanyahu is accused. "Between the broadcast of the program in which the plaintiff visited Mr. Netanyahu and the date of the announcement of the hearing, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, Mrs. Miriam Adelson, the newspaper's owner, and Mr. Boaz Bismuth, the newspaper's editor, worked closely on the issue of bringing Jonathan Pollard to Israel. Pollard was finally brought on Sheldon's private plane. Adelson (and witnesses at the end of December 2020 flew together to bring Mr. Pollard to Israel), the newspaper's editor Boaz Bismuth was on the plane, and the person who greeted Pollard was Mr. Netanyahu. Political considerations since she spoke out against Netanyahu as another media platform (near her dismissal) - and in fact because of these statements, the defendant 'showed her the way out',"Ugly dismissals made in bad faith."

"Not only did the decision to summon her to the hearing and the reason for the hearing surprise her and were unexpected and as stated stemmed solely from personal and political whims," ​​Amrusi claims, "This is a fact that has worked for the newspaper for more than 11 years to the satisfaction of her superiors and flawlessly."

According to the Seventh Eye, an attempt was also made to silence Amrusi, when she received a waiver and dismissal for signing, according to which in exchange for a payment of NIS 50,000 of an "adjustment grant", she undertakes to maintain complete confidentiality and avoid filing a lawsuit.

Amroussi refused to sign and instead filed her lawsuit.

Amrusi referred to her lawyer Adv. Lotem Mesika, who declined to comment.

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