The Israel Prize uproar: After Education Minister Yoav Kish decided to cancel this year's awarding of the Israel Prize in its current format on Independence Day due to the expected win of the entrepreneur Eyal Waldman, who is considered an opponent of Netanyahu, the chairman of the Israel Prize Committee for Communication, journalist Yaakov Achimair, announced this morning (Wednesday) that He is resigning from his position. This was first announced on the IDF airwaves.
In an interview with the station, Achimair said: "Minister Kish called me and asked me to think about my decision again. I'm thinking about it, I'm considering it, I didn't give him an answer."
As I recall, Kish decided to cancel the awarding of the award in the usual format and award awards only in the fields of civil heroism and mutual guarantee.
Jacob Achimair/Reuven Castro
The Press Council welcomed Achimair's decision to resign: "One of those who were supposed to win the award, according to the publications, is the high-tech entrepreneur Eyal Waldman, who is associated with the leaders of the struggle in the government against the background of the legal reform - and he claimed that this was allegedly the reason for his exclusion and the cancellation of the award. The Press Council headed by Mishna Retired President of the Supreme Court Hanan Meltzer, hopes that the cancellation will be canceled and the award will be handed out in its existing format for years on Independence Day, alongside the awards that were proposed to be added to mark civic heroism and mutual guarantee.
Achimair is the recipient of the Israel Press Prize for 2012 and has been a pillar of public broadcasting for decades.
His decision also expresses the importance of the necessary need for a free press while sticking to the facts and all without fear and without any bias.
This is the purpose of awarding the Israel Media Prize."
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