Channel 14 Reporter Attacked at Haifa Polling Station

Gal Tubi confronted by activists in Haifa (Screenshot from Channel 14 broadcast)

A Channel 14 reporter was confronted by left-wing activists while broadcasting from outside a polling station in Haifa on election day.

Gal Tubi was reporting live when activists approached her, claiming that her camera was pointed toward the polling station in a way that could capture voters on film.

Tubi, visibly shaken and near tears, shouted at those confronting her: "You will not point the camera at me and you will not touch me, and if you touch me I will report it to the police right now!"

"You can't see anyone here, and you will not continue to harass me anymore! This is thuggery! Just because I'm Channel 14, and in every place you do this to me! How many people like you... you should be ashamed! You're just harassing me!"

Ofer Winter, chairman of the Amcha Yisrael party, condemned the incident in a statement: "We are all brothers here! We must stop the attacks of one person against another. I strongly condemn the attack and personal harassment of the Channel 14 reporter in Haifa and call on law enforcement authorities to act on this matter. This attack joins a series of similar incidents against Channel 14 crews and in general against journalists and media outlets doing their work."

"There is no place for this violence in Israeli society and any attack on media outlets doing their work must be condemned clearly and unequivocally," Winter said.