PM Netanyahu Meets with Knesset Speaker Rivlin Regarding Channel 10
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, this
evening (Sunday, 16 December 2012), agreed that the Knesset would convene in
the coming days to discuss the proposed agreement regarding the continued
operation of Channel 10, which was formulated by a professional team that
included Prime Minister's Office Director-General Harel Locker, Finance
Ministry Accountant-General Michal Abadi-Boiangiu, and Finance Ministry
Budget Director Gal Hershkovitz.

PMO Dir.-Gen. Locker and the Channel 2 licensees' director-general will also
discuss the licensees' request for easements in the wake of the crisis in
the communications market.

The Knesset will also discuss a six-month extension of local news broadcasts
and approving an extension of the tenure of Deputy Foreign Minister Danny
Ayalon.