Shaul Amsterdamski, a 2019 Nieman Fellow, is the economics editor and a commentator at Kan, Israel’s public broadcasting corporation, where he covers macroeconomics, the pension system, the ministry of finance and major economic events. He previously worked as a senior reporter and commentator at Calcalist, Israel’s most-read business daily, where he was a senior reporter and commentator on topics such as the national budget, the political economy, macroeconomics and the health system.
The expected charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—bribery, fraud, and breach of trust—are also charges against large parts of the Israeli news industry. For an Israeli journalist like me, the 57-page document Israel’s Attorney General Avichai … Read more
