On May 26, 2025, Attorney Ronen Reingold, on behalf of Zulat, participated in a discussion in the Economic Affairs Committee of another law to crush the Corporation — an annual reporting requirement to the Economic Affairs Committee. “The bill seeks to undermine the independence of the Public Broadcasting Corporation and subject it to political control, which runs completely counter to the fundamental principles of public broadcasting in Israel.”
Attorney Reingold presented the position paper he wrote for Zulat, in which he explains how, invoking ‘transparency’ as a smokescreen, the coalition seeks to control the Corporation and add a political oversight element in the form of the Knesset’s Economic Affairs Committee.
In other public corporations in Israel political oversight mechanisms of this type do not exist, and the bill cannot be separated from other government attempts to take over the media market and essentially eliminate free media in Israel and the public’s right to know — a right without which there is no real democracy.
Watch (Hebrew, no subtitles):