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David Landau found that fulfilling wet dreams in public has a price
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| By Israel Insider staff February 12, 2008 |
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Just over a month after it was revealed that he told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that it was his "wet dream" to tell her that Israel wants to be raped, Haaretz editor in chief David Landau will be looking for another job.
The scandal, covered up for months by the Israeli media "branja", was exposed and publicized by several pundits and publications, including writers for Israel Insider (here and here), which called for a boycott of Haaretz until Landau's replacement.
Dov Alfon has been named as the new editor-in-chief, following a decision by the company's board of directors. Guy Rolnik, the deputy publisher of the Haaretz Group said Tuesday that the "choice of Alfon was a natural one and is a sign of our commitment to direct the newspaper toward growth and significant expansion of our readership, continuing the marked growth of recent years."
Alfon is expected to take up his new role on April 15, replacing Landau, who is completing a four-year term in the post. Landau will stay on at Haaretz as a member of the editorial board.
Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken said that Landau took the position of editor-in-chief during an uneasy period for the newspaper and its editorial staff. During his tenure, said Schocken, Landau succeeded in expressing Haaretz's commitment to the values of practical Zionism, and concludes his service with the same great journalistic achievements, leaving the newspaper with an unprecedented high circulation and as strong a status as ever in Israel and abroad.
He did not mention the rape comments and the ensuing furor.
Landau said he was privileged to have been part of leading the flagship of Hebrew journalism and that he was concluding his tenure with a sense of pride. "During my four-year term, I have been happy to be part of the newspaper's growing success, achieved in a time of turbulence and recession in the newspaper industry worldwide," said Landau on Tuesday. "With its English edition and Web site, which I was instrumental in creating, Haaretz has become a major medium in international and Jewish discourse, bringing its proud and principled journalism to a world audience.
"My term as editor spanned testing times of terror, war and ongoing peace efforts. Throughout this period, Haaretz has advocated policies of responsible Israeli Zionism, while maintaining the values of pluralistic and ethical journalism."
Landau did not mention whether he thought that advocating Israel's rape in front of the US Secretary of State fell into one or both of those categories. |
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