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Gag orders in Israel have tripled over last 15 years
As the Military Censor has become more liberal, authorities have turned to gag orders as a convenient alternative for controling the dissemination of information. Over the past 15 years, the number of gag orders issued in Israel has more than tripled. But that is only a rough estimate because no state body actually monitors them.…
By Haggai Matar May 9, 2016
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Merkel at a joint press conference in Berlin, February 16, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
Fact-checking Netanyahu: A week full of truthiness
From surreal exaggerations to outright lies, Netanyahu dished up another batch of nonsense utterings to a foreign audience in Berlin this week. We picked three of the best and broke them down for you. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has something of a track record of saving his most nonsensical and demonstrably false statements for foreign…
By Natasha Roth-Rowland February 17, 2016
Ben Zygier, alleged Mossad Agent who was found dead in his cell in 2010 (photo: ABC Australia)
‘Prisoner X’: Censorship and gag orders in the age of new media
The ‘Prisoner X’ affair was sensitive enough for Israel to use all of its censorship tools at once: the military censor, gag orders and the ‘editors committee.’ But was the effort by the Prime Minister’s Office entirely about national security, or did it have to do with protecting those responsible for the mess? And what should…
By Noam Sheizaf February 13, 2013
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