{"id":590771,"date":"2026-08-20T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/590771\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:10:09","slug":"katz-on-ruling-to-strike-down-closure-of-idf-radio-well-complete-the-process-by-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/590771\/","title":{"rendered":"Katz on ruling to strike down closure of IDF Radio: &#8216;We&#8217;ll complete the process by la"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Minister Israel Katz criticized the High Court of Justice&#8217;s decision to strike down the government&#8217;s decision to shut down IDF Radio. Katz wrote: &#8220;I completely disagree with the High Court&#8217;s decision, under the pretext that &#8216;the decision was made based on irrelevant and improper considerations,&#8217; and that the High Court placed its judgment above that of the elected government ministers &#8211; who unanimously believed there is no place for a civilian radio station with political content within the IDF. Since the High Court determined that the government was authorized to make the decision and rejected the claim that closing IDF Radio required primary legislation &#8211; when we win the elections and receive the public&#8217;s trust again &#8211; we will complete the handling of the matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Minister Israel Katz criticized the High Court of Justice&#8217;s decision to strike down the government&#8217;s decision to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-590771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590771","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=590771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}