Chairman Yitzhak Herzog opened Monday's meeting of the Zionist Union's Knesset faction by criticizing the nomination of executive director Shlomo Filber of the Communications Ministry as Civil Service Commissioner. Herzog said "Shlomo Filber's candidacy for the Civil Service Commissioner, an important gatekeeper, is a fundamentally unacceptable political appointment and we will turn to the appropriate courts if necessary to block it. "
Accusing Netanyahu of sending Filber to purge public broadcasting, Herzog continued, "We will not allow Netanyahu to purge the government of gatekeepers, and I and my colleagues in the Zionist Union faction will stand as a wall on the issue."