At 10:32 the earth shook.
On Yehuda Hayamit Street, Razi Barkai sat down in front of the new station commander, who summoned him for a conversation.
"What?" He asked in his famous directness, his eyes glued to the cellphone.
"I wanted to say thank you for all the years, Razi," Cohen said, "yes, yes. Thank you," Barkai replied and stood up.
"Sit down, I'm not done," the commander whispered, "there are changes to the transmitter board. The next day will be your last broadcast. Thanks again for everything, and we'll be happy to help with your experience."
"Terribly funny," Barkai replied and stepped out, only to hear behind him: "Go to me from the accounts. She will give you a travel form."
For the first time in his life he realized that someone had made a point for him.
"I'm not going to make a big deal out of it," he told himself, sending an email to the entire station: "I was fired. The fascist purge has begun."
The shock was felt from Givatayim to faraway Holon, and the rumor spread: the new station commander is carrying out political purges.
The broadcasts on channels 11, 12 and 13 were interrupted with a "special report on the occasion" slide.
Yonit Levy was called from her home to look at the camera and announce in a trembling voice: "The Queen Station has fallen."
From there she turned to our reporter in Sderot, a microphone in her hand, attacking an elderly woman: "What do you think about the death of democracy?".
"Death what?", The old woman replied.
The reporter hurried to transfer the broadcast to the field studio in Jaffa, where the channels moved to a special broadcast day entitled "Escalation in the South (Tel Aviv)".
And there, as Maj. Gen. in time of war, Reno jumped a bundle from position to position: "I'm afraid of the day they will knock on my door and make me disappear too."
Behind him, weeping candles were lit, and one of them lamented, "I did not think it would happen on my shift, perhaps on a night shift."
Eliad Shraga was, of course, in a hurry to file a petition with the High Court, anticipating the EU ambassador and UN spokeswoman who "expressed concern about the deaths of democracy, which could harm the peace process."
The Coalition for Peace and Democracy (about 654 in number, including Let the Animals and Democracy Live), which surprisingly joined, also expressed shock and apprehension.
Breaking the Silence revealed a shocking testimony (anonymously) of a GLC graduate. His own when he revealed that the station commander's step-uncle David lives in the settlement, which of course explains a lot, but Aviad Glickman from News 13 overshadowed him when he reported on the broadcast: "Report that senior officials in the Mandelblit area made it clear he would not let the move happen."
"The right is destroying freedom of expression," Dana Weiss exclaimed in a special panel of "Meet the Press" on the occasion of the situation in the south (Tel Aviv).
"I actually think that freedom of expression was destroyed by the right," Amnon Abramovitch surprisingly contradicted her, "where mouths are silenced, journalists will burn and submarines will be sold!" Erupted Raviv Drucker, who came from the rival channel for solidarity.
"I ask you to keep order," Rina Matzliach took control of the commotion, sending a penetrating look at the camera: "On days like this, it is important to maintain unity, despite the disagreements," and returned the broadcast to Jaffa.
The Queen Station fell.
All the events and happenings in the text are the product of the writer's imagination.
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