High Court Justice Yitzchak Amit accepted the request of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and issued an interim order on Sunday evening freezing the government�s decision to close Army Radio.
�After considering the issuance of an interim order,� Justice Amit wrote, �and after reviewing the position of the Attorney General�s Office and the government�s response, I have reached the conclusion that the request should be granted.�
The High Court hearing will be conducted before a panel of three justices: liberals Daphne Barak-Erez and Ruth Ronen, who are both known for their judicial activism, and Yechiel Kasher. Following the announcement of the panel, Channel 12 journalist Amit Segal stated wryly, “Don’t worry; the station won’t be closed.”
Barak-Erez is known for telling Attorney Efraim Damari, who represented the Force 100 soldiers falsely accused in the Sde Teiman affair, that �the Military Advocate General is a gatekeeper, and gatekeepers never ‘lie’��shortly before ex-Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi admitted that she lied to the High Court and deliberately leaked a doctored Sdei Teiman video.
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi responded, �The government�s decision to close Galei Tzahal stands and remains in force. Justice Amit�s interim order was issued with no legal basis and does not override a government decision. Checks and balances in a democracy must also apply to unlawful moves by the judicial branch.
�The government must act immediately to implement the government�s decision and continue the process of closing the �home of the soldiers,� which over the past two years has continued�according to soldiers� testimonies�to weaken IDF soldiers�and which, among its other linguistic �gems,� recently eulogized and praised the terror supporter Bakri.�
Earlier on Sunday, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara announced that she supports the High Court issuing an interim order to freeze the government�s decision to close Army Radio and to prevent any action on the matter until a ruling is issued on the petitions filed against the move.
Apart from the fact that Army Radio has deteriorated into a liberal propaganda station, Israel is the only democracy that maintains a military-run radio station competing with civilian news outlets, funded at roughly NIS 52 million annually.
(YWN Israel Desk�Jerusalem)
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i�m not sure about other countries, but afaik, both america and britain have armed forces broadcasting. (remember �good morning, vietnam�?) shutting down galei tzahal is more honest than trying to control its content, but it�s still a very sad reflection of today�s cancel culture.