Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 07, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free press wednesday june israeli press packs Wallop by h ghee Nwa y the washing to Post Jerusalem what re Porter has not dreamed at some Point in his career of being Able to sue his editors for distorting his deathless prose on the copy desk in Israel the reporter s fantasy became fact recently when staff writer Yair roller of the respected he brew language daily a Aretz sought and obtained a temporary court in Junction against his own newspaper preventing it from printing an article that he s Aid was so badly edited As to endanger his reputation As a responsible and unbiased journalist. The article an interview with Deputy prime minister Yigael Ladin was supposed to run in a weekend supple ment. Kotler showed the court Galley proofs with the changes his editor had made however and won a restrain ing order. Then a Arete asked the District court to lift the ban on the grounds that there is no Legal basis for a journalist to question his editors Deci Sions in court. The court postponed a decision but the next Day the entire Case became irrelevant when the rival daily a aria printed the entire unedited version As an advertisement to the Chagrin of Ladin s political party the democratic movement for change which Felt the unedited article was More sym pathetic to Ladin than the edited version. If a aria had any qualms about running a pirated copy of its rival s article As an advertisement it was not enough to prevent it from doing so. The incident Points up the Lively and competitive nature of the israeli press which is among the most inquisitive and resourceful As Well As free Wheeling in the world. There Are 27 daily papers in Israel. Thirteen Are in he brew four in arabic and one each is published in English French yiddish polish hungarian German Roma Nian and russian. Add that to a television and radio ser vice to which israelis Are addicted and you have something for nearly every body among Israel s three million people. An israeli television Crew got into Egypt before last december s Cairo Confer ence without the permission of the government although the Crew members technically belong to a Public broadcasting authority. When the israeli government tried to limit the number of israeli journalists going to Cairo the journalists took the government to court and won. Famous scoops have be come a part of the israeli newspaper legend. Uri Dan of a aria. In the Early morning hours after the Entebbe raid while the israeli commando planes were Fly ing Home with the rescued hostages managed to get a Telephone Call through from Tel Aviv to Uganda s Idi admin and hit the streets with a dramatic eyewitness account of the raid s after math from none other than Amin himself. Dan Margalit of it Totz took and deposited it in a Washington Bank in the account of Leah Rabin the wife of then prime minister Yitzhak Rabin last March. It was illegal then for israeli citizens to hold foreign Bank accounts without permission and when the Deposit was accepted Margalit had the proof be needed to print the Story that led to Leah Rabin s conviction and Yitzhak Rabin s resignation. Fee press hum Greenway Post foreign m resignation. Rabin s government coalition Fettke previous Decem Ber indirectly As the result of a tiny orthodox religions paper called Stearin Rabin Fem a ceremony for the first american f-i5 fighter planes reach Israel but the pints 4m it arrive a Frety. Befi Tab jews Are net Sqq Lanei ;