Israel approves bill to shut down foreign news channels – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Israeli parliament on Monday authorized a invoice granting prime ministers the facility to ban the broadcasting of Al Jazeera information channel in Israel—a transfer Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is more likely to pursue. The regulation, handed by a vote of 70 to 10, permits the ban of international channel broadcasts and permits the closure of their places of work inside Israel. The regulation empowers the prime minister and the minister of communications to declare worldwide networks functioning in Israel to be in peril of closing and seizing their tools, if they’re deemed to be posing “an precise hurt to the state’s safety.”Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had beforehand vowed to “instantly act to shut Al Jazeera” after the regulation is handed.