An Open Letter From an “Illegal Outpost”
Battling Against ‘The Falsification of History’, by Josh Hamerman (Ynet)
Residents of Maaleh Rechavam Sue Maariv Newspaper for Libel, by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (Israel National News)
Excerpts;
After requests that the newspaper publish a retraction were refused, according to Drori Bar-Levav, general secretary of the community, it was decided to sue Maariv.
Lawyers representing 14 residents of Maaleh Rechavam filed suit with the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Sunday. The defendants named in the case are Amnon Dankner, Maariv’s editor-in-chief, journalist Uri Yablonka, and Maariv’s publishing corporation. According to the suit, the representation of the community as it appeared in a May 2006 article by Yablonka defamed them, and negatively impacted Maaleh Rechavam residents’ businesses and relations with their Arab neighbors.
