At the beginning of today's Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (who also serves as Communications Minister) explained his decision to push off the opening of the new Israeli public broadcasting station.
"Just like when there were only two cellphone companies, two bus companies, two airlines, and today there are more because we opened the markets to competition – thus it will be in the communications market...I would like to clarify something else: I will be neither bought nor deterred, not with criticism, not with mudslinging and not with fawning air time which, as you know, I receive endlessly," Netanyahu commented wryly.
In a more serious tone, he continued: "I understand one thing – the greater the opposition to opening the communications market, the more I understand that I am doing the right thing."