"It's hard for me, even more so, to think what is going through our friends, the ex-Broadcasting and Educational Authority, who founded the new corporation here and enter in less than a decade another movie like this, another nightmare like this"
Preparing for the fight: Kaan Chairman Gil Omer and Kaan CEO Golan Yokhpaz today (Sunday) convened the employees of the Public Broadcasting Corporation for a first emergency meeting in Jerusalem in view of the intentions to harm the Public Broadcasting Corporation and spoke together with representatives of the workers' committee Eliran Gabai and Yoav Karakovski.
As I recall, last week the full plan of Communications Minister Shlomo Karai was revealed, in which at least half of the corporation's budget is planned to be cut, as well as the complete privatization of other departments within it, which in practice means the closing of public broadcasting.
Gil Omer, chairman here, said: "Without public broadcasting there is no interest-free and independent news.
News that is dictated from above - by those who are not professionals, capitalists or politicians - harms first and foremost the strength of society;
Without public broadcasting there is also a fatal injury to Israeli culture, creativity and creators;
Without public broadcasting, it is not possible to broadcast to citizens who have difficulty understanding Hebrew and members of various minorities who make up Israeli society and need to be and feel a part of it.
Without public broadcasting, there is no proper accessibility for those with disabilities and special needs;
There is no quality broadcast for children and youth.
Without public broadcasting, the public interest is seriously harmed."
Golan Yokhpaz, the corporation's CEO, said: "A few days ago, a survey was placed on my desk, carried out at the corporation's request, by one of the most prominent survey companies in Israel, a survey that sought to examine the public's attitude towards the intentions to harm us - nearly 70% of the public in Israel - Jews And Arabs, secular and religious, right and left - ask not to harm here in any way.
This is a higher trust index than almost any other public body in Israel apart from the IDF."
Yochpaz added: "I know, for sure, that there are workers here who haven't slept at night for weeks, that there are others who experience anxiety attacks, literally, that others don't know what to answer to their children or sons and daughters-in-law, when they ask if they are going to close the corporation for mom ?'. It's hard for me, even more so, to think what is going through our friends, the ex-Broadcasting and Educational Authority, who established the new corporation here and are entering in less than a decade another movie like this, another nightmare like this. There is also a positive, exciting angle in the upheaval we are going through in the last few weeks - The support we receive from our friends in the television and press industry is almost wall-to-wall: creators, producers, artists, musicians, writers, stage people, people in the television and film industry - our real partners, and partners in our destiny."
Emergency conference at the Broadcasting Corporation (photo: surfers' photos, surfers' photo)
"The employees, the management and the council work from Nablus to Nablus"
Yochpaz also referred to the appearances of journalists in competing media over the weekend, who expressed support for the corporation.
"In this context, it is my right to point out our members in the petition who are fighting against the damage to the corporation in the news, in the various programs and in satire, and our friends in Network 13 - Ila Hasson, Matan Khodorov, Guy Lerer and others who were not afraid to express their position in favor of continuing our broadcasts," he said.
The representatives of the corporation's employees' committee, Eliran Gabbai and Yoav Karakovski, said at the workers' meeting: "In the fight against the closure of the Israel Broadcasting Corporation, the employees, the management and the council are working from Nablus to Nablus. We will cooperate fully. We represent a thousand employees of the public broadcaster who go through time and again threats to peace and source your livelihood. For a large part of them who came here from the Broadcasting Authority, educational television, and even from Channel 10, this is not the first struggle, and we will not give up until we remove this threat from our heads. Employees here are united in one strong and cohesive committee, and see this task of saving the corporation as a task with a purpose Preservation of a leading and independent media body, which expresses the voice of all sectors of the Israeli public, fairly, and is a livelihood for thousands of families and mothers. We are preparing for a long struggle, and we need you with us in this struggle."
The representatives of the corporation's employees' committee, Eliran Gabbai and Yoav Karakovski, said at the workers' meeting: "In the fight against the closure of the Israel Broadcasting Corporation, the employees, the management and the council are working from Nablus to Nablus. We will cooperate fully. We represent a thousand employees of the public broadcaster who go through time and again threats to peace and source your livelihood. For a large part of them who came here from the Broadcasting Authority, educational television, and even from Channel 10, this is not the first struggle, and we will not give up until we remove this threat from our heads. Employees here are united in one strong and cohesive committee, and see this task of saving the corporation as a task with a purpose Preservation of a leading and independent media body, which expresses the voice of all sectors of the Israeli public, fairly, and is a livelihood for thousands of families and mothers. We are preparing for a long struggle, and we need you with us in this struggle."
Emergency conference at the Broadcasting Corporation (photo: surfers' photos, surfers' photo)
In the meantime, the journalists' organization announced an emergency conference to be held next week in Tel Aviv, under the title "We will not allow the elimination of public broadcasting".
The organization stated: "Minister Karai has declared war on public broadcasting. The Minister of Communications is leading a dramatic cut in the budget of the Israel Broadcasting Corporation, in order to weaken it and turn it into a trampled, submissive and fearful media body. To destroy what has been built in recent years with great effort. This may eventually lead to Talk about closing the corporation in a short time.
"Independent public broadcasting independent of those with wealth and commercial or political interests is necessary in a democratic society.
The planned measures will severely damage the ability to produce a free press here, the cultural renaissance created here, and the livelihood of thousands of employees, salaried and self-employed, whose livelihood depends - directly and indirectly - on the corporation."
Emergency conference for the corporation (photo: official website, journalists' organization)
"Sweeping and dangerous statements"
The Jerusalem Journalists' Association also joins the corporate struggle, and calls on the President of the State: "Intervene to save public broadcasting.
"Holding hundreds of journalists under warning and threats at their headquarters could lead to a fatal injury to the freedom of the press, even if Minister Karai does not succeed in strangling public broadcasting to death." The heads of the Jerusalem Journalists' Association, Ofra Seth Milo and Miki Klein, write to the President of the State, Yitzhak (Boji) Herzog.
The heads of the association state in their letter that hundreds of journalists of the Israel Broadcasting Corporation and its employees, members and members of the Jerusalem Journalists' Association are once again experiencing explicit threats to the future of public broadcasting and their safety For many of them, this is already the second round in which the government is trying to eliminate their professional home - public broadcasting.
In the letter, they call on the president "to act in order to enable a serious dialogue that will remove from the agenda dangerous sweeping statements that do not take into account the importance of public broadcasting to Israeli democracy."
Statements that they say do not take into account the thousands of workers, in the immediate and wider circle who are now shaking their job security.
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