And so about two weeks ago, Uri Mintz, the cultural critic at Maariv, wrote: “A wonderful country” has slipped, as usual in the Holy Land, into the self-promotion of Keshet, and this time also of its news company. If the presence of Tzadi Tzarfati and Ofira Asaig on the political panel can still be slipped because of the presence of Rosenblum, host of “The Singer in a Mask”, then in other parts of the program the imitations of the news company’s reporters were an easy and slightly lazy solution. The Carmel storm was not what they promised? Here are imitations of Ilanit Adler and Matan Yaakov. Violence in the Arab sector? Get Purat Nassar. Shocking cases in the education system? Here is Yael Odem. “
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“This is how the Channel 12 news company is marked as the Israeli tribal bonfire and its writings become cultural heroes (when did you see characters from Channel 13 reporters in Eretz, except for the imitation of Avishai Ben-Haim that Yaniv Bitton brought from home?). The next day they will compliment each other on the imitations. “And they will see the excerpts again, and will fill the endless air time of this afternoon’s topical strip.”