We enter Facebook, write whatever we want against whoever we want, launch and forget. Sometimes the one who attacked us, is not ready to accept it and asks for relief from the court. This is what happened to Yediot Haifa reporter Tali Liebman. She was sitting at home and saw a live broadcast on Facebook of the municipality of Haifa. Radio North interviewed Haifa Mayor Dr. Einat Kalish Rotem about her success in dealing with the corona virus in the city at the beginning of the epidemic even before the vaccinations.
10 minutes after the start of the broadcast, Tali Liebman uploaded a post on her private Facebook in which she wrote a criticism of the broadcast on Radio North and the alleged relationship with the mayor. After that, she was contacted by North Radio with an offer to apologize for what she said and to donate 20,000 NIS to one of the IDF soldiers to end the matter and she refused. The next step after correspondence between the parties was a defamation lawsuit for about 140 thousand NIS.
Tali Liebman was asked many questions about the post she made. First of all, Liebman heard the broadcast and sent a question on WhatsApp to Eliran Tal, the spokesperson of the municipality (then MM was the spokesperson of the municipality and later became the spokesperson) regarding the cost of the broadcast to the municipality (since she claims the broadcast was very, very flattering to the municipality, apparently). Eliran Tal did not answer her and therefore She did not publish an article on the subject in the Yediot Haifa Local, but she did put up a post on Facebook. When asked why she did not cross-reference data by contacting Radio North, she replied that she covers the Haifa Municipality and usually asks for comments from spokespeople.
(The full protocol from the court hearing is provided for your perusal at the end of the article and we present here the main points of what is written in it)
Eliran Tal was questioned at the hearing by Attorney Detz
Liebman was represented by lawyer Lior Detz. One of the witnesses, who were questioned, was the spokesman of the Haifa municipality, Eliran Tal. Tal was involved in the broadcast on which Liebman's post was, so his testimony was particularly intriguing. Radio North contacted Tal and asked him for a list of municipal employees who were involved in the success and a list of people who work in non-profit organizations and other organizations that also contributed to the eradication of the corona virus (according to the data published by the Ministry of Health at the time). Eliran Tal, according to him, handed over two lists with telephones and was even present for two hours of the broadcast, in order to accompany the municipality employees.
"Those who treat the municipality and Klish Rotem well receive an advertising budget"
At the hearing, Attorney Detz presented the relationship, apparently, between the municipality and Klish Rotem at its head and local and national media bodies. According to him, in a systematic way, the municipality does not respond - not to local media bodies and sometimes not even to the national ones. He brought press clippings, which support his claim.
In addition, Detz asked Eliran Tal to read correspondence between him and Radio North's reporter, Ms. Liat Ron. According to Detz, Ron criticized Kalish Rotem on her broadcast and Tal contacted her about this criticism. Tal read an email, which he forwarded to Ron, in which he wrote to her that "they have nothing more to talk about". In the end, Radio North's annual advertising budget was very low.
Attorney Detz claimed in the discussion that it can be clearly seen that those who treat the municipality and Klish Rotem well receive an advertising budget and those who go against Klish, are allegedly damaged by the advertising budget.
The judge tried to bring the parties back to the discussion regarding the defamation claim
Judge Roital Baum could not bear the fact that the two lawyers chose, according to her, to ask questions, which are not related to the lawsuit. One way or another, the investigation of Eliran Tal revealed conduct of interest to every resident of Haifa, apparently.
Things you see from the mayor's chair
In the previous term of the former mayor, Yona Yahav, who was then a militant council member from the opposition, Dr. Einat Kalish Rotem, criticized the fact that Yahav allegedly transfers hundreds of thousands of shekels to Yediot Haifa and Radio Haifa.
So she thought that the residents do not gain anything from this and the big gainers are the owners of the media bodies Radio Haifa and Yediot Haifa apparently. But apparently what you see from the chair in the opposition and from the chair as mayor is not exactly the same.
Protocol - the Radio North defamation trial against Tali Liebman and the investigation of the witness Eliran Tal 29/09/21
Liebman sues Nir Shuver:
When you look at posts on social networks, you can see a lot of libel lawsuits in the making, the thing is that not everyone wants to get into all the trouble or embroil the person who wrote the defamatory post.
Liebman herself filed a lawsuit a few months ago against the then assistant mayor and now a council member, Nir Shuver, for allegedly harsh things he said to her outside the council meeting hall. This lawsuit will be clarified later in court and the amount that Liebman is asking for as a plaintiff is almost the same amount as the amount for which she is being sued.
Einat and Nachshon are very wonderful people. good week
The wonderful Einat and Nachshon cooperate only with balanced and fair media people.
They are the ones who are resolutely and persistently restoring Haifa from the damages and neglect of the old world and there is no dispute about that.
This article deals with a different issue: the mutual libel lawsuits of a journalist who chose to speak for the Shisui opposition, and as long as it turns out in courts - there is nothing to argue about it.
Let's spoil her shape, Inshallah!
"I put a chop on the Haifa media! Chopped!" Klish said before she was chosen. In her arrogance, and while showing disdain for the residents of Haifa, she made sure, even after she was elected, not to respond or be interviewed by the local media. "There is no response", similar to "cleaning stables" and "moving the cheese", has become one of the chewed-up and tired clichés that were frequently launched from the bullpen. But recently a change. Cliche and cliff change strategy. Kalish advertises herself at the film festival, which she threatened to cancel and from which she cut budgets at the beginning of her term, and Tsuk is interviewed at length by one of the Haifa locals! As Zuk stated in the same interview, the opening shot for his and his partner's 2023 campaign to occupy and destroy the city has already been fired - for them, the semantics are always related to the battlefield or the conduct of war. Some of the far-fetched posts published in response to the interview indicate that the infamous cliff and cliché keyboard commando has already come into play. There is only a small problem: this unlovely duo, Tzuk and Klich, who in the 2018 campaign, was not known to the public and marketing itself as the one who will bring salvation to the city, has been revealed in the last three years as an empty cliché. As big as the promise, so big is the disappointment. So Kalish floods the city's Facebook page with mutilated selfies of herself, which have already become trash in the eyes of the public, and Tsok sharpens his head and tongue, gives (on his own initiative?!) an interview, and prepares for the next election cycle. There is no telling what plots, tricks and political tricks the two are already embroidering and weaving for us in the dark. Experience shows that with Tzuk and Klish, the end sanctifies the means, and all means are kosher, even when they are invalid. The general public supports the Change Coalition which is doing amazing work. In the next elections in two years, a worthy alternative must be put in front of Klish and Tsok. Otherwise, we will see the two continue for a second term, and there is no worse scenario for Haifa's future.