{"id":130559,"date":"2025-11-13T05:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/130559\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T05:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:57:11","slug":"israel-escalates-media-crackdown-plans-to-shutter-army-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/130559\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Escalates Media Crackdown, Plans to Shutter Army Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said he plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/T5LR0SGPQQ6L\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs- whitespace-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-component=\"link\">closeBloomberg Terminal<\/a> Army Radio, one of the country\u2019s oldest and most popular stations, accusing it of undermining \u201cthe war effort and morale.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The shuttering, which will require government approval and will likely face a legal challenge, is the most recent effort by the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rein in media it views as hostile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said he plans to closeBloomberg Terminal Army Radio, one of the country\u2019s oldest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16142,50,234,42,46,66627,8457,43,238,4179,2460,4320,40,38,41,39,2201],"class_list":{"0":"post-130559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-al-jazeera","9":"tag-gaza","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-israel-defense-forces","14":"tag-law","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-radio","18":"tag-social-media","19":"tag-supreme-court","20":"tag-top-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topnews","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}