Even though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked "Yedioth Ahronoth" publisher Noni Mozes more than once in recent weeks, it appears that he nevertheless has confidence in his Internet platform. Sources inform "Globes" that starting today, a week before the elections, Likud will spend thousands of shekels on advertisements on Y-net, mainly for mobile devices.
The "Yedioth Ahronoth" website has been taking a clear line against Netanyahu in the current election campaign, and its main headlines have consistently displayed social and other injustices portraying the Prime Minister in a negative light. Y-net editor Eran Tiefenbrunn met yesterday with Minister of Transport Yisrael Katz.
One of the Likud election broadcasts calls the website "Lie Net." In a post on his Facebook page on February 9, Netanyahu used unprecedented language, writing, "In recent weeks, the attacks against me have no longer been appearing once a day in the morning, when "Yedioth Ahronoth" is distributed. They are being published almost every hour, sometimes even every half hour, on the Y-net website. These two platforms initiate and coordinate absurd, false, and prejudicial slanders against me and against my wife, as part of a media campaign to replace the Likud government with a leftist government and reestablish Noni Mozes's control of the media market."
Y-net and Likud declined to respond.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on March 11, 2015
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