Netanyahu Must Drop Running Communications Ministry, Rivals Say
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should step down from his dual role as communications minister because it gives him too much power over phone companies and media, opposition members of parliament said.
“It now appears that Netanyahu’s main reason for calling the election was to seize control of Israel’s broadcast media,” Shelly Yachimovich, a Labor Party lawmaker and former talk show host, said Tuesday. The prime minister fired the director general of the communications ministry shortly after his new government was sworn in on Thursday.