The “New Journalists” forum reports that it “tonight (Sunday) expresses strong condemnation and resentment following the conduct of Mr. Ofer Golan, spokesman for Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, towards our colleague Shmuel Kramarsky – editor-in-chief of the Shacharit newspaper.” Because “Kramersky did his job as required and harm to him has no place in the media discourse. We call on Mr. Golan to return immediately. “
As you may recall, JDN News journalist Shmuel Kramersky, who also serves as editor-in-chief of the JDN Group’s Shacharit newspaper, has been waging a stubborn struggle in recent months for the Likud party, which claims to represent the traditional public in Israel. .
Instead of doing a home inspection and introducing a clear procedure that does not issue announcements on Shabbat Kodesh, choose the leading party in the right-wing bloc in which the ultra-Orthodox parties partner to censor the comptroller. In a cowardly move by party spokesman Ofer Golan, this morning (Sunday) the diligent journalist group who presented the truth to the party was removed from the group of spokespersons.
In a report published by Kramarsky in the Shacharit newspaper under the headline “Disgrace: Likud published a response on Saturday,” he noted that “until the closing of the issue, there were no condemnations from representatives of the ultra-Orthodox parties, who support opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister.”
“Although the establishment of the expected commission of inquiry was announced on Friday afternoon, the Likud chose to respond to the publication only after Shabbat, disgracefully desecrating its sanctity. The response was published in a statement in the party’s official spokesperson group, by Netanyahu’s personal spokesman, Ofer Golan.
A statement from the Likud said: “While this government is plunging the country into the abyss it is trying to divert public attention in a cycle of further idle investigation. The public sees the failure and this government will be quickly replaced.”
It should be noted that Golan claimed this morning before Kramarski that the message was sent before the beginning of Shabbat, but as is known, nowhere in the country did Shabbat enter after 17:37 (in fact, Shabbat left around this time). In the morning, Golan was offered to publish a clarification that this was done in good faith because he thought that Shabbat had not yet come in, but it chose to refuse the offer and remove the editor from the party’s spokesperson group, threatening to order all party spokesmen not to cooperate.
At the end of the article, Kramersky noted: “Until the time the issue closes, there have been no condemnations from representatives of the ultra-Orthodox parties, who support the return of opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu to the prime minister’s office, and are seen as the right-wing bloc in the Knesset.”
The last time the Likud desecrated the Sabbath, they later said that “the party has always observed the Sabbath and made sure not to publish media messages during the Sabbath, and so we will continue to do so.