Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has rejected the criticism of the left against commentator Yaakov Bardugo, who broadcasts on Israel Defense Forces Radio and is identified with the right.
Netanyahu said "On IDF Radio, there is one broadcaster who is not prepared to align himself with the left and the clique, and he interferes with the daily propaganda broadcasts of Reno Tzror, Razi Barkai and others for Lapid Ganz's leftist party, so they exert tremendous pressure to remove him from the station. "It will not happen - there is a limit to the thought police and the silencing of the left. We are not in North Korea, and if there is no expression for the right as well, IDF Radio has no right to exist."