Before the deadly Hamas attack on the 7th of October 2023, the big story in Israel was an attempt to overhaul the judiciary by the most right-wing government in the country's history.

It prompted a wave of mass protest against what many Israelis saw as an attack on democracy.

But another big transformation was already underway. That went somewhat under the radar.

Center stage again?

The man who's been called Israel's first TV prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

In 1999, he had lost an election and he even said,

next time I'm back, I'll have my own media outlet.

He starts to cozy up to Channel 14 in the past few years,

what some Israelis would describe as Fox News.

On Netanyahu's watch, some news outlets were nurtured,

while others were deprived of funding.

The Union of Journalists decried a cabinet order

suspending public advertising in the newspaper Harets. I think the Israeli government

drafted a master plan to silence independent media in Israel and to weaken prosperity

in Israel.

The justification for this sounds familiar.

Netanyahu is talking about some kind of deep state conspiracy against him.

It's the liberal media, according to him. It's the Supreme Court, according to him.

It's the Supreme Court, according to him.

It's the Shinbad Israel's internal security service.

Critics have described this process as a hostile takeover of the media.

In this episode of the global jigsaw, we take a look at what people in Israel see about the war in Gaza on their TV screens.

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