{"id":302817,"date":"2026-02-21T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/302817\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:10:17","slug":"the-billionaires-securing-netanyahus-control-over-israeli-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/302817\/","title":{"rendered":"The Billionaires Securing Netanyahu&#8217;s Control Over Israeli Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">On the day the staggering scale of Assaf Rappaport and his three partners&#8217; exit from Wiz became clear \u2013 the Israeli startup was sold to Google in March 2025 for $32 billion \u2013 some dared to hope that part of the vast windfall might be directed toward the public struggle against the coalition of destruction and dictatorship that&#8217;s dragging the country downward. A Tel Aviv liberal, involved from the outset in the battle over Israel&#8217;s democratic character, was involved in that whole mind-boggling deal? There could hardly have been better news for the exhausted masses protesting in the streets for over two years and in dire need of a shot in the arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the day the staggering scale of Assaf Rappaport and his three partners&#8217; exit from Wiz became clear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,85,46,69730,954,70088,43,3215,51469],"class_list":{"0":"post-302817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-israels-media","12":"tag-israeli-politics","13":"tag-judicial-coup","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-october-7","16":"tag-sheldon-adelson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302817","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=302817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}