Freedom of information

Media world hits back at plans to cut state funding for Kan as communications minister says ‘no place for public broadcasting in Israel’; academic warns country may be heading down ‘dangerous path.’

I stopped by my student’s desk to see how her research was coming along. No stranger to the endless goldmine of internet mis/information, she was busy at work.

The chief military censor today is Brig.-Gen. Doron Ben Barak, who previously served as the deputy military advocate-general and someone who is well acquainted with human rights and civil liberties.

While there is a lot of horrible language that deserves to be challenged and even canceled, it has created a climate of fear for writers like me.

The High Court ruled that the Prime Minister's Office would have 90 days to hand the NGO 220 previously unreleased invoices from the famous residence on Balfour Street in Jerusalem.

The entity responsible for deciding which government meetings would be transparent and which would remain classified for 30 years - is the government itself.

Ruti Abramovitch, the state archivist, threatened other archives in a letter, writing that 'any archives holding a document defined as classified may be subject to severe penalties'

The report came in response to "a decade-long decline in media freedom through systemic censorship and attacks on journalists ranging from harassment, arbitrary detention and extrajudicial killings."

The Spokesperson’s Unit and Military Censor have completely collapsed.

Prosecutors Yuval Yoaz and Shachar Ben Meir filed a request to the Israeli Supreme Court to publish the transcripts of conversations between Netanyahu and "Yedioth Ahronoth" publisher Arnon Mozes.