The decision to investigate Eli Tzipori: a necessary move or a slippery slope?
The ombudsman approved the investigation of journalist Eli Tzipori on suspicion of harassment and threats by the prosecution team in the Netanyahu Hadas Klein trial. Attorney Zion Amir representing him: "A real violation of journalistic freedom."
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08/08/2022
Monday, 08 August 2022, 12:28 Updated: 12:42
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The legal advisor to the government Gali Beharve-Miara approved the investigation of the journalist Eli Tzipori on suspicion of harassment and threats against Milchan and Packer's assistant Hadas Klein, this after he published the photo of her home and her residential address on social media.
Around this news, Arel Segal and David Wertheim ('Walla') spoke on 103fm with the lawyer Zion Amir, who represents Tzipori, who presented his client's version
. The basis is below the journalistic work and seriously harms the freedom of expression.
There is no justification for it, there is no offense here, neither of harassing a witness nor of threats," declared Attorney Amir at the beginning of the conversation.
"A journalist is allowed to come and say anything and check its context in context. No one is claiming that Tsipouri intentionally went and tried in some way to harm, mainly, the free testimony of that witness in court and not to threaten her with the intention of harassing her, but the photograph of the house was in the frame a certain context".
According to him, "She herself in her testimony, which was perceived by Tzipori as whining about her financial situation as part of the testimony in the investigation, then a journalist comes and says that they won't confuse our minds about some kind of financial situation or another because the person lives well. Suppose they showed a picture of her with a diamond worth Two hundred thousand dollars or a luxury car worth a million and a fleet of NIS, would we say that there is harassment?
This therapist goes after the main thing, to deal with the expression of a journalistic opinion."
Lawyer Zion Amir announcing decisions in the Salmon Teka case at the Ministry of Justice, November 2019 (Photo: Roni Kanfo)
"There is no violation of privacy"
Wertheim wanted to put the emphasis on the context in which the photo was published, while Attorney Amir clarified: "There is a conflict or confrontation between values and public interests.
Remember what was important and what was the main thing, for example if I were to follow the approach you are now asking then I would ask you this way - Momo Filber said he was threatened by things published about him by another journalist, and he is a state witness, that's how Momo Filber felt on the witness stand when they told him 'if you don't Give such testimony then you will know that your agreement with the state witness will be revoked, you will go to prison, etc., and that is when he is on the witness stand and he has to give true testimony.
Then why didn't you go and write a big column with a title that you criticized and issued a really severe sentence against such publication?
That's why I thought about such a matter I should publish, what violation of privacy?
There is no violation of privacy."
Later, the lawyer representing the journalist Tzipori gave as an example the publication of the house of the opposition leader and former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and in response Wertheim pointed out that he was an elected official. his house in Caesarea, is this an invasion of privacy yes or no?
Is he threatened?
Yes or No?
Wertheim, would you like a regime in which you live or a country that tomorrow will knock on your door and say 'you tweeted something that is clearly not true' and arrest you?"
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