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An illustrative photo of an Israeli soldier blocks a journalist from filming in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. (Flash90)

IDF censor redacted two thousand news items in 2019

According to official figures, Israel's military censor barred full publication of over 200 articles and partially redacted another 2,000 stories.

By Haggai Matar March 9, 2020

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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

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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