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Al Jazeera

Haaretz stories cast doubt on health of Israel’s ‘democracy’

Cohen served as the Mossad chief from 2016 to 2021 under the previous term of Netanyahu as prime minister [File: Gali Tibbon/AFP via Getty Images]

Israeli newspaper Haaretz has published two eyebrow-raising pieces in a row that cast doubts on Israel’s democratic norms.

On Wednesday, it published an opinion piece by Jonathan Pollak with chunks of text redacted, referencing a standing gag order preventing media from discussing “administrative detention” – a system under which Israeli forces hold Palestinians indefinitely without charge or due process.

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