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MK Haim Biton questioned over suspected use of public funds to finance private Shas newspaper

He is suspected of using funds from the Ma'ayan HaChinuch HaTorani education network to finance a private Shas-affiliated newspaper while serving as the network’s director-general seven years ago.

|ByEFRAT FORSHER
Shas MK Haim Biton arrives to a government conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on January 3, 2023.
Walla News building in Tel Aviv, on March 20,2020.

Labor court blocks Walla layoffs, overhaul pending talks with journalists’ union

The ruling explained, in a unionized workplace, a company cannot proceed with layoffs before giving the union the information needed to understand, question, and offer solutions to the plan.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
A photograph of the glass door at Haaretz smashed by a masked vandal.

Masked vandal smashes entrance to Haaretz offices, days after similar attack on Channel 12

Security footage showed the individual reaching through the entrance grates and tossing two bricks at a glass door, which punched a hole through the entrance before he fled. 

|ByJONAH DAVIDOV
ATTORNEY-GENERAL Gali Baharav-Miara.

Gov’t boycott of Haaretz: A-G backs petitions, urges High Court to make order absolute

Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara urges the High Court to block government actions against Haaretz, calling the measures unlawful and a threat to press freedom.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN

Pro-Hamas newspaper back on sale in West Bank in new unity step

Islamist tabloid "Falasteen", Arabic for Palestine, returns to the West Bank three days after Hamas allowed a leading West Bank daily to be sold in Gaza.

MAY 10, 2014ByREUTERS
Man reads Arabic newspaper in J'lem

Media Comment: Shameful legislation

Restricting Israel Hayom would be a blow to Israel’s freedom of the press and freedom of speech.

MAY 7, 2014ByELI POLLAK, YISRAEL MEDAD
A woman is seen through a coffee shop window as she reads an article about Ben Zygier in an Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper in Jerusalem, February 15, 2013.

Makor Rishon employees demonstrate against Antitrust Authority

Antitrust Authority says it is doing its best to make decision soon; employees say more complex cases have been approved more quickly.

APRIL 29, 2014ByNIV ELIS
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Makor Rishon, NRG urge anti-trust authority to approve sale to Adelson

Makor Rishon editor: "If we do not get approval by Thursday night ... the paper will die and become a corpse."

APRIL 27, 2014ByNIV ELIS
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