Immediately upon accepting the position, Karai said about the privatization of the broadcasting corporation that "we will study the issue and work to have a competitive media market here"
A day before the swearing in of the government, Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu announced today (Wednesday) that Knesset member Shlomo Karai from his party will serve as the next Minister of Communications.
The decision was made as part of the distribution of Netanyahu's files to Likud members.
In addition to being an enthusiastic supporter of the legal revolution planned by the Netanyahu bloc and limiting the power of the Supreme Court, Shlomo Karai, who will be appointed Minister of Communications, he is an enthusiastic supporter of the closing of the Public Broadcasting Corporation and the privatization of the IDF airwaves and has already submitted bills on the subject even before the formation of the government.
Immediately upon accepting the position, Karai said about the privatization of the broadcasting corporation that "we will study the issue and work to have a competitive communications market here."
MK Shlomo Karai, Likud, May 20, 2021 (photo: official website, .)
"The corporation first, GLA later"
One of the assessments voiced in the Likud corridors is that closing down the corporation or its news department (which is 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
Krei leads the fight on behalf of the Likud and Netanyahu in the media, and is considered the most extreme marker on the issue.
According to a month, following a report that the Likud party wants to close the corporation, Karai said that "I don't know the talk about it in the negotiation rooms, but this is the result I have been leading to for the past three years in promoting an agenda of a free media market and competition."
He stated: "There is no reason for us to continue to finance public broadcasting with almost a billion NIS per year.
The corporation first, GLA later. It is also possible at the same time."
Be that as it may, during the last month the work plan of Karai became clearer and 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".
The issue did not come up at all as part of the coalition agreements, but it seems that the horses have already left the stable and prominent Likud supporters explained during the last month why there is an "obligation" to privatize it.
One of them is Erez Tadmor, who maintains 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 Likud corridors is that closing the corporation or its news department (which is 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.
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