"Funny": How did presenter Yinon Magal respond to the profile on him in The New Yorker?

June Green
January 14, 2025   
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During their program on 103fm, Ben Caspit today (Tuesday) addressed the profile article on Yinon Magal that was published in the American New Yorker, which reflects what the liberal left magazine thinks about Yinon Magal.

The article by Ruth Margalit, an Israeli who lives and writes in New York, paints a fascinating picture.

Ben: "You are one of the few Israelis to whom The New Yorker dedicates a profile."

Magal: "I read it yesterday until two in the morning. I didn't understand everything, I didn't understand every word."

Ben: "The New Yorker is liberal left, and that's crazy English. But how do you feel?"

Magal: "I don't hide anything, I have a worldview and I say things. It's funny that they give the title 'Poison Machine', and don't prove anything that there is a poison machine in it. I have certain abilities for good and evil. Some really like it and some really hate it. In the end, I'm a very controversial type, what is called controversial in English.

"I walk down the street and some people tell me: 'You're great and should be prime minister,' and on the other side people hate me, they can throw sentences at me and make faces at me in the elevator and all that."

Ben: "Regarding the poison machine, if you haven't watched Sefi Ovadia's 'Uvda' investigation, watch it, or listen to Galit Distel in a single moment of decency where she explained that 'there were a hundred people who spread poison here, and I was part of it,' but forget it."

Magal: "I have one request. You said you wanted to hug me, try to avoid it, it's not good for me, it hurts me."

Ben: "It's an elimination."

Listen to the full conversation.

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