Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has informed Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman that Liberman may meet with the head of Israel Defense Forces Radio but is forbidden from getting involved in the station's programming, according to a Thursday-morning report by Yediot Ahronot. Liberman has called station commander Yaron Dekel in for "clarification", following the station's Tuesday-evening edition of the "Broadcast University", dedicated to hostile Arab poet Mahmoud Darwish.
Under a legal opinion by Deputy Attorney Geneal Dina Silber, published in 2015, neither the defense minister or the chief of staff of the IDF may get involved in the station's programming, despite it being an army unit. Channel 2 Television reports Dekel said on his own Thursday-morning show that he will preserve freedom of expression at the station