Israel’s Netanyahu appoints new media adviser, journalist who had called Biden ‘unfit,’ report says

By TIA GOLDENBERG
Associated Press

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed a new media adviser who has tweeted critically against President Joe Biden. The Haaretz daily reported about the appointment late on Sunday. Gilad Zwick, a journalist with a conservative Israeli TV station, has in his tweets called Biden “unfit” to rule and said that he was “slowly but surely destroying America.” He also posted tweets that suggested he supported President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 U.S. election was rigged. Zwick’s appointment comes as ties between Israel and its closest ally, the United States, are fraught over a contentious Israeli government plan to overhaul the judiciary and over the government’s ultranationalist character.