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Because of an investigation into relationships with minors: Journalist Roi Arad stops working for Haaretz

The journalist and poet announced that due to an investigation by Sharon Sporer to be published tomorrow, which claims that there was a relationship with minors about 20 years ago, he "takes a complete stop for an indefinite period of any activity, and goes out for self-exclusion and mental reckoning."

He added: "I am ashamed of myself, I have a lot of work left on me"

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Wednesday, 09 September 2020, 22:15

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Journalist and poet Roy Chiki Arad announced tonight (Wednesday) that due to an investigation by journalist Sharon Sporer to be published tomorrow on the "Hottest Place in Hell" website, claiming that he had sex with minors in the early 2000s, he informed Haaretz where he writes about the break Immediate of his work there.

He also announced that he has found a replacement in the management of the Maayan Association, which operates the magazine.

"Even if I do not remember the things described, my heart breaks and goes out to the women who have sometimes carried for two whole decades such murky feelings about me," he wrote on Facebook.

"It's good that the pus broke out. Even though I was not malicious, blindness is no less terrible. I am ashamed of myself. Even if thanks to a determined struggle, the attitude towards women changed from the period described in most testimonies in the article, to the male sex and me. To live in security, dignity and equality, and it is worth noting vital initiatives for maintaining a safe space for women in the nightlife, such as the "Good Night" organization, which I wish were operating at the time.

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"Ashamed."

Roi Arad (screenshot)

"Full of sadness, I apologize to every woman who has ever felt that I have hurt her," Arad continued, writing.

"As someone who sought to make the world worse and even better, who considered himself a promoter of women and even sided with women - I feel like a failure. All my scorching struggles and social articles seem to me at the moment like a bad joke in the face of this great sorrow. To continue my business as usual with such a dark cloud hovering over my head, biting into my soul.How can I now publish songs, appear in funny clothes or write articles? Unfortunately, it is impossible to step back in time.To not stay in beautiful words, I take a complete stop for an indefinite "Every activity, and goes out for self-exclusion and soul-searching. I ask my friends to respect the women in the article, and I do not need likes and public support. Sometimes bowing your head, listening and silence are the right thing to do."

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