'Sokolov Prize' winner lashed out at fellow faculty member: "Not a journalist, polluting the profession, like a leper"'

Avi Katz
8 June 2025   
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Chaim Goldberg/Flash90

Sokolov Prize for Journalism winner Yigal Sarna was interviewed on the program 'Journalist's Certificate' with Roy Katz on Knesset Channel - and lashed out at Amit Segal, the senior political commentator on News 12.

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""Amit Segal is not a journalist, he pollutes the profession, and he is the disgrace of journalism," said Sarna.

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Sarna, 73, who wrote for the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth for more than 30 years, won the Sokolov Prize for written journalism in 2011. His work at the newspaper was terminated following his loss in the libel lawsuit filed by the Netanyahus.

The full episode will air on Tuesday at 9:00 PM on Knesset Channel.


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