Haredi demands 100 thousand NIS from Channel 10 • "revealed my identity; fear extreme attacks"

Haredi soldier serving in Battalion 97 of the Nahal Haredi demands from channel 10 to omit some material observed in the article "a glimpse into the lives of the Nahal Haredi fighters " aired last Friday on Channel 10 and can be viewed on Nona website. The soldier also demands compensation in the amount of one hundred thousand shekels, for the violation of the Privacy Protection Act.

"During the filming day, my client demanded from the photography teams, as seen clearly in the article, not to photograph him, but despite his determined request the story was aired on prime time, when my client saw the article with a slight blur to his face, and is easily identifiable with the big peyos fluttering, and his voice which has a heavy accent" , writes Sharon Goshen the attorney representing the soldier, in a letter warning before taking proceedings sent to the channel 10.

"Much to the cynicism and wickedness of the reporter, photographer, and production staff, they all chose to ignore pointedly at his request, and although they were well aware that exposure to an article of this kind could harm soldiers and / or their families, they chose to broadcast the story, with the faces of the soldiers who asked not to be interviewed and photographed, while soldiers are easily identifiable.

"It goes without saying that the haredi Nahal Haredi recruits are reviled and exposed to damage by ultra-Orthodox extremist segments. Rulings state that the Orthodox soldiers should be expelled from the synagogues, they are attacked physically in the streets, and not allowed to go on various occasions on the lines of 'mehadrin', and exposed as a negative control which affects them gravely in which they live, which forces the large proportion to enlist quietly.

Likewise my client who told his friends that he left the yeshiva in which he learned to transfer to another yeshiva because he did not want his friends to find out he was drafted. Also his extended family and his childhood friends do not know that he joined the army, which he did in private for fear of harassment by extremists in the Haredi sector."

Channel 10: "We decided on our initiative to blur the faces of the soldiers"

Goshen warns that in fact the identity of the orthodox soldier was exposed, and the fact that his face - identifiable in the article, and his voice not distorted at all - led to the revealing, and cast the stain and irreparable damage which could not be removed from his friends and his Orthodox parishioners, and in the future, may even hurt him in shidduchim and marriage.

In the letter Goshen writes: "It would be expected of a leading communication channel in Israel, who in 2009 was required for a similar issue, in a petition filed against Amnon Levy's program on Channel 10, to recognize the extent required of the blurring of a photographed person." Question in an article by journalist Amnon Levy the deal documentation prior Extraction in rabbinical court.

Channel 10 response: "Staff of 'Friday' came to film the 97th Battalion of the Nahal Haredi with the approval of the IDF Spokesman along with a representative who closely accompanied the photography.

"During the preparation of the article, out of respect for the soldiers, we decided on our initiative to blur the faces of the soldiers who asked not to be interviewed and blurred faces of the soldiers who seemed not satisfied with his presence of the camera."

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