Kan 11 reporter on Ila Hasson: "I wish I could say more"

Kan 11 legal correspondent Shelly Tapiero addressed the controversy surrounding anchor Ayala Hasson in an interview on Galei Israel radio.

"The Broadcasting Corporation is the source of livelihood for me and my children," Tepeiero said. "At the same time, I wrote: 'Know from where you came, and where you are going, and before Whom you are destined to give an accounting.' What does a journalist have besides the truth? I cannot say more than that."

"I can say [that] Ayala certainly does not need my words, first and foremost, she is an outstanding journalist! Beyond that I cannot say. I wish I could speak, and maybe that's the story more than anything..."

The night before, Tapiero had posted on social media: "'Know from where you came, and where you are going, and before Whom you are destined to give an accounting.' What does a journalist have besides the truth, and what does a believing person have other than the knowledge of to Whom he owes an accounting? In the not-distant past I wrote about the price of silence and the fear, but I am part of a people that does not fear a long road. A continuation will surely come."

The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation has given Hasson an ultimatum following a storm over her comments about Bedouin women in the Negev and her claims of failures in ballot boxes in the Arab sector: publish a clarification and apology on air in a format acceptable to management, or she will not be allowed to return to hosting her program.

In a response she published, the anchor claims she has already clarified her remarks and apologized to the satisfaction of her superiors, and that an alternative text she proposed was rejected. "They are demanding that I read a text that presents my words in a manipulative and distorted way," she said, and accused elements in the Corporation of leaking false information about the dispute.