Broadcaster Nathan Zehavi launched an attack against Yated Ne'eman today (Sunday) at the beginning of his program 'Zehavi Nervous' on 'Radio Nonstop':
""I want to draw your attention to three difficult cases over the past weekend in which women were murdered. The first - the shocking murder of a young woman who went to a job interview, there is still a blanket gag order on the details of the investigation. Who murdered Shelly Dadon from Afula?
The second murder, a bizarre murder in my opinion, is that of Matana Levi, 78. The late Levi was the head of the stairwell committee in her building. Some 'scoundrel' cleaned the stairs with a broom and demanded 5 shekels from her, and when she didn't give him any, he 'blasted' her out of shape, or in the most vulgar and rude Hebrew - 'dismantled her out of shape' with a hammer. 5 shekels. A Jew. According to the photographs, this is also a religious person, which is even more embarrassing. He's filled with secular animals, but religious? To murder an old woman for 5 shekels?
By the way, if you ask me, as someone who has been swimming in the criminal mud for many years, this is one of the most shocking murder cases in the country, and not just on a national level, but on a global level. A 45-year-old man murders a woman with a hammer over 5 shekels, it's unbelievable.
Another shocking case in the south in which a woman was murdered - in Ashkelon, a man got drunk and stabbed his partner to death, both of them were drunk. It was impossible to even question him because he was so stoned, he didn't know what was being said to him.
So we have a murder of stoners, a murder of a crazy person and a third murder about which the police say the direction of the investigation is nationalist, of course they leave another opening but claim that it is on a nationalist background. Due to the total blackout sweeping over the investigation, there are no details beyond the fact that there was a heartbreaking funeral. It is terrible that a young girl goes out to look for a job and is murdered with abysmal cruelty full of hatred, it is unclear. I will not give you the list of stabbings and rapes, it also turns out that the prime minister's driver is perhaps the biggest pedophile that has ever existed in the country. The things that are happening here are not normal, a rapist president, a thief and bribe-taker prime minister, something bad is going on here.
We are moving sharply to the fact that for this small and relatively young state, 23,169 people were killed in Israel's wars during its years of existence. 23,169! Multiply that by a pair of parents, 2-4 siblings sometimes, children... a bereavement that encompasses, I think, almost the entire population of the State of Israel. There is no person who has not lost a father, brother, sister, son, child, neighbor, relative, spouse, friend, girlfriend. There is no one who is not torn apart by it, and you can also see it in the media that deals with this issue on the eve of IDF Memorial Day.
I have to mention one more thing, not because it's an ultra-Orthodox piece, it's a piece of pure nerves. In front of my eyes is the newspaper 'Yated Ne'eman', of the ultra-Orthodox sector. The newspaper has mentions of yeshiva students, rabbis who died, rabbis who died, about the prices of mikvehs that have risen, 1001 topics covered in this newspaper. But there is no mention that today will be the eve of Memorial Day.
One small thing does mention in 'Yated Ne'eman' that today (Sunday) will be the eve of Memorial Day, and you won't believe what it is. On the fourth page and in the corner of the first page at the top it says: "Public desecration of Shabbat in preparation for a ceremony to commemorate the victims of wars and terrorist attacks." There was public desecration of Shabbat! "Trampling the sanctity of Shabbat in Jerusalem." What happened? Eyewitnesses who passed by the 'Yad Labanim' house on Saturday afternoon testified that trucks were unloading equipment and a lot of activity was taking place while trampling the sanctity of Shabbat. This is the reference to the 23,169 IDF martyrs, someone was unloading equipment from the truck in preparation for the event, and eyewitnesses who passed by saw that they were desecrating Shabbat. Above that news item (and it's so strange) there is a big news item that spreads over almost half a page - "Scandal: Mikvah prices raised to 20 shekels for a one-time entry." What kind of people...
And in a move called "Hoksha" in basketball, I throw the newspaper "Yated Ne'eman" and hit a nearby trash can...""