Maccabi Tel Aviv player Eran Zahavi in the campaign for the abductees alongside advocacy activist Yosef Haddad/photo: Yaniv Tuchman
Netali Shem Tov was supposed to start hosting the Friday edition of News 13 "right after the holidays".
Then came that Black Sabbath, on October 7, and after the holidays did not come.
It is doubtful if the words "after the holidays" will ever not give us chills.
And so, Shem Tov integrated into channel 13 without special celebrations.
Just a journalist who came to work in a new place, during the most difficult period in the country's history.
Even if you don't necessarily see it in the ratings tables, the move of Netali Shem Tov to News 13 did both sides good.
The channel earned a successful journalist who is identified with the competitors, she earned a prestigious title.
The fact that her team for a joint daily program with Almog Boker during the war turned out to be a casting brilliance.
Beyond the professionalism of the two, and the authentic tendency of both of them to be emotional - the two are also proud ambassadors of the periphery, and hold the unique title "Evicted".
Booker and his family members were evacuated from the Gaza Strip, Shem Tov was evacuated with her family from her home in Metula in the north.
No one can say about them that they are "journalists disconnected from the Tel Aviv barangay".
Two days ago, Almog Boker brought a nice scoop to the main edition of the channel: at the Soroka hospital in the south, these days, life-threatening premature babies are being treated.
A one-year-old Israeli baby fighting for his life.
Why is this news?
Because this baby's grandmother is the sister of the bastard Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
To Almog Booker's credit, in the already short report on the event, he emphasized three times the importance he sees in publishing things: to show the world how we Israelis are humane and moral, even in times of war.
We are not like them, the monsters over the fence who murder, burn and kidnap babies.
We take care of them.
Almog Booker/screenshot, network 13
I choose to believe Almog Booker that he really thought this was a report that should be shown all over the world because it makes us look good, but we also have to honestly ask: have we lost our minds?!
No doctor should get a pat on the back for agreeing to give medical care to a baby.
This is not a moral dilemma, such that Israeli doctors have certainly encountered in the past, regarding the provision of life-saving medical assistance to terrorists who survived a terrorist attack that they themselves carried out, but in fucking a baby.
Coincidentally, an Israeli baby, the son of Israeli parents who were never suspected of illegal activity.
The thought that someone in the world should thank us for taking care of (Israeli) babies proves how much this war has thrown us out of moral balance.
The item naturally led to discussions on social networks about the pros and cons of providing medical treatment (!) to an Israeli baby (!!).
This, as I remember, is in response to the exposure that should bring us out well in the world.
As befits commercial television in Israel, these crazy tweets turned into a completely serious studio discussion, on the show of Almog Booker and Telai Shem Tov.
At the beginning of the discussion, it seems that all the people in the studio were united in their opinion that Israel is a western democratic and liberal country where medical care should be given to the babies of citizens.
If the world saw the debate, it would be really proud of us.
Well, Eden Golan, there is still a chance to take the Eurovision Song Contest.
But good television is not made from a few people who agree with each other (for the information of the friends at channel 14) and you should always give a counterpoint.
This counter was given with great pride by the independent advocacy activist Yosef Haddad.
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"I listened to the things that were said in the studio and it just makes me sick," announced Haddad, who repeated the constant mantra that Israel is indeed a Western democratic country, but it should conduct itself the way it should be conducted in the Middle East (wanting to say: stop being a democratic country).
Hadad clarified the condition he would set in order to grant medical treatment to a premature baby in Soroka: that each member of his family would declare that he disowns and condemns the brother of the baby's grandmother.
After all, what screams "democratic country" more than conditioning medical aid in exchange for empty statements?
And what if the baby's family members do not meet the conditions set for them by Yosef Haddad?
Well, then, according to him, "the celebration is over."
Not only would doctors sworn to protect human life be forced to let the infant die, the citizenship of the other grieving family members would also be denied.
It's amazing that there are people who still think that this man does good "advocacy" for Israel.
"Nonsense in tomato juice," Gil Tamri, one of the more restrained journalists who work on commercial television, blurted out in the studio in response.
Hadad already lost it here.
"Shut up," Haddad responded in a fit of madness, "You don't understand anything. You're nothing and nothing. Let me tell you clearly, you're weak. You're still on October 6th. You'll stay on October 6th. You're one of those people who don't They need to be heard, and you need to be replaced. I don't know who you are, I don't know what you are. I tell you in all seriousness, you are a disgrace and a disgrace, go back to October 6."
Almog Booker had to calm the spirits, and made it clear to Haddad that he could not speak like that to the channel's reporters.
At this point, Gil Tamri was allowed to respond to the things and he said very extreme things about the fact that in a democratic country it is impossible to deny citizenship to people because of family ties.
Here, a serious news channel and Chafetz Chaim would stop the unnecessary discussion from the beginning and move on to the next item - but as mentioned, I watched channel 13.
Gil Tamri confronts Yosef Haddad/screenshot, News 13
Instead of interrupting this unfortunate discussion, Boker and Shem Tov returned the permission to speak for an unknown reason to Yosef Haddad, who just a moment ago erupted as if obsessed with their colleague on the channel.
Haddad began speaking incoherently about people who still do not understand what happened on October 7, tried to say what will happen to the baby who is currently being treated at Soroka when he grows up, then stopped and signed off with the sentence: "Yes, it is important to treat all citizens of the State of Israel, but citizens who want the welfare of the state , citizens who support terrorism, we should deny them their citizenship."
Reminder: this is a life-threatening premature birth.
In the studio they still tried to explain to him that he was slandering Israeli citizens who support terrorism without presenting any proof, at this point Hadad took out his headphones and dramatically announced: "Keep fighting among yourselves, I'm done."
In the studio, Netali Shem Tov decided to conclude "For the avoidance of doubt, there is an agreement in the studio that all citizens of Israel are entitled to medical treatment and we do not see every baby born here, no matter who his parents are, and probably also who his distant uncle is, as suspected of supporting terrorism or as someone who will join terrorism in the future." .
Amazing that this is a sentence that a journalist had to say in the studio.
We do not suspect babies of supporting terrorism!
At this point Almog Booker asked to mention again the reason he revealed the news: "The story is not important here, it is important in the world, because there are still those who think we are the problem."
It is not certain that the very discussion of the question "Should premature babies be treated?"
In the news studio, we are as good in the world as he thinks.
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