One of the assessments that is being voiced these days in the corridors of the Likud is that closing the corporation or its news department (which is the red sheet for the Likud) would be an almost impossible task, but legislation that would significantly reduce its budget is not ruled out
Two days after the initial report on Likud's intention to close the broadcasting corporation, and the work plan is becoming clearer.
It is important to understand: the focus of the debate is not only ideology, but also and in fact mainly big money.
The biggest beneficiaries of the reduction of the corporation's power will be the commercial channels (12, 13 and 14) which will benefit from the market share that will be "vacated".
A senior member of Likud says today, Wow!
Branch that there is no intention to close or privatize the corporation, and the issue did not come up at all within the coalition agreements, but it seems that the horses have already left the stable and prominent Likud supporters explain why there is an "obligation" to privatize.
One of them is Erez Tadmor, who says on Radio 103 that "the corporation is not a public broadcaster, it is a broadcast of one side of the political map".
When asked why harm one of Israel's politically diverse media bodies, with dozens of nationalist and ultra-Orthodox religious workers, he explained that "Likud has no representation."
Listen to the conversation.
However, one of the assessments being voiced these days in the corridors of the Likud is that closing the corporation or its news department (which constitutes the red sheet for the Likud) would be an almost impossible task, but the party does not rule out legislation that would significantly reduce its budget.
The actual meaning, as mentioned, will be to "softly kill" the organization.
The corporation law was passed by the Netanyahu government
In this context, it should be noted that the corporation law was passed by the Netanyahu government, and it was led by the Likud minister of communications at the time, Gilad Erdan.
It should also be noted that in the interview at Vala!
About a year ago, the corporation's CEO at the time, Eldad Koblenz, revealed that he received from Netanyahu's emissaries a list of about 120 "recommended" for employment at the corporation, and even talked during the establishment of the corporation with the prime minister's senior adviser at the time and today's State Council, Nir Hefetz, and corresponded extensively with the CEO "The former Communications Ministry and today's additional state committee, Shlomo Filber, is also Netanyahu's confidant.
The two - Hefetz and Filber - tried to take over the key positions in the broadcasting corporation, which at the time was in the process of establishment.
Among other things, Filber then wrote to Hefetz: "I will sit with Eldad (Eldad Koblenz, CEO of the corporation) at the end of the week about all the assignments left for the meeting with the Prime Minister at the end of next week.
The news division, network B, editor of Mbat, network C."
On December 29, 2015, Filber wrote: "I offered Menachem Horowitz to come and be the director of the news division (of the established corporation). Accepted by the boss (Netanyahu). The boss also offered him other things. If we run the right press on him, we're in bingo."
"In the first year of the establishment of the corporation, there was no council and basically the interface was with the Ministry of Communications, which is perfectly fine, it is reasonable. What is amazing is that the pressures were not only from the Ministry of Communications..." Koblenz said in an interview.
"Filber recommended 120 people, and of those we only took those who were worthy. Look, I'm very matter-of-fact and really cold as ice in these things. And I don't care if Filber suggested or Masha Lubalski. Take for example Elad Tana (former director of the digital division at the D.V. Corporation ). He arrived thanks to recommendations, was elected on a case-by-case basis and was very successful in his position.
"I also remember the Prime Minister's deal with the Secretary General of the Histadrut to postpone the establishment, which was a clear hint that if we do not begin to align with all the requests then the corporation will not be established. I am glad that we did not give in ",
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