The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the petition submitted by the Union of Journalists in Israel against the removal of two journalists - Yaron Avraham and Ariel Kahana - from the Likud spokesperson’s WhatsApp group. According to a report in Kan 11 News, Judge Noam Solberg explained that the two journalists themselves did not complain about being removed, did not submit the petition themselves, nor were they added to the petition.

In recent weeks the two journalists were returned to the WhatsApp group in question.