Israel press

High Court freezes Second Authority council after state misses response deadline

The new extension requests, submitted on Sunday, “are not acceptable to me at all,” Justice Alex Stein wrote, adding that this was the case regardless of the petitioners’ positions.

 High Court hearing on petitions seeking the dismissal of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, April 15, 2026.
Attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, in the Israeli parliament on September 30, 2025.

Israel's broadcasting law poses 'grave risk,' A-G says, urging High Court to hear petitions

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Press watchdog: Israel still blocking independent foreign reporting in Gaza despite ceasefire

Defense Minister Israel Katz over a backdrop of Army Radio building.

Katz says gov't will approve shutdown of Army Radio today after 75 years of broadcasting


Government declarations about diversity in media are a deception

Netanyahu and his right-wing government’s desire to restrict the media and to use it for their own needs is transparent.

PALESTINIANS GATHER in a coffee ship in Hebron, where a TV screen shows US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participating in a joint press conference in February.

Israel's commitment to press freedom questioned after journalist shot

Foreign Press Association: "The case offers an important test of Israel’s commitment to protecting all civilians and ensuring freedom of the press."

A wounded Palestinian reporter is carried by a medic and civilians on May 18, 2017 near the Hawara military checkpoint.

Knesset passes laws that free media market

Bills allow i24 News to be broadcast in Israel.

Calev Ben-David I24 host

Israel denies work visa extension to Dutch journalist

Walters has been forceful in his criticism of Israeli policy vis-à-vis the Palestinians, and it is widely suspected that this is the reason he is being denied the extension.

Newspaper (illustrative).

Grapevine: Osteoporosis 2017

A round-up of news from around Jerusalem.

Hadassah Medical Center

A peek behind the curtain: The Netanyahu newspaper scandal

The public loses the most in this because it is not privy to the “why” of the coverage with which it is provided.

COPIES OF ‘Israel Hayom’ and ‘Yediot Aharonot’ are displayed in Ashkelon l

Freedom of the press and freedom of information; fears and realities in Israel

Such fears also resonate in diplomatic circles, so Swedish Ambassador Carl Magnus Nesser and Finnish Ambassador Anu Saarela last week co-hosted a discussion on the subject as it affects Israel.

A man looks at newspapers at a kiosk in Diyarbakir in November 2015. Since the July 15 coup people have complained of a crackdown on press

Le Premier ministre cherche-t-il à museler la presse ?

En ligne de mire, un nouveau projet de loi qui vise à réformer les médias

Manifestation contre la nouvelle Autorité de diffusion publique

A cause for celebration at the President's Residence

Olim hadashim - new immigrants - featured prominently again among the recipients of the president's 120 awards for outstanding IDF service.

PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN pays a surprise visit to some of the 120 outstanding soldiers who will be honored as part of the 68th Independence Day celebrations in Jerusalem

My word: War, roses, peace and the press

From Jerusalem to Sarajevo: Personal impressions from a convention of European journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The old Sephardi Synagogue and Jewish Museum in Sarajevo.