Just days after Israel’s senior journalists gathered in Tel Aviv to call attention to fears that the country’s press freedoms are eroding, a journalism advisor to the Government Press Office resigned in protest. Eva Berger, dean of the School of Media Studies at the College of Management in Rishon Letzion, ended her participation as a member of the GPO’s advisory council charging that, “The council’s objective is to grant its approval of an old wrong, in the guise of democracy – and I will not lend my hand to this.” Israel’s second commercial television station is on the verge of being closed while news bureaus are shrinking. In addition, uproar is mounting as right wing politicians offer new laws that journalists are calling anti-democratic, among them, a modification of the libel law that would make it easier for politicians to sue journalists. The GPO itself generates a great deal of controversy, in particular for its role in deciding who may be accredited as a journalist as many more aptly described as activists are given press cards. Many are also challenging procedures that give the army a key voice in that process, charging that Arab reporters are subject to discrimination.