In 2016, an affair of sexual harassment on Army Radio was exposed in the media. This exposure came at the expense of the two female soldiers who wanted to stop working with Avner Hofstein, who at the time was replacing the editor of a daily current affairs program. They claimed that Hofstein harassed them verbally and physically. In this case, too, the station's conduct harmed the female soldiers instead of helping them.
"I worked with Avner Hofstein as a producer at least once a week," says Dana, who enlisted in 2013. "The producer and the editor sit close to each other. He would put a hand on his lower back, on his thigh, stroke his hair. Makes illegitimate comments like "I'm masturbating to the wall." Really disgusting. And in every shift, consistently. At a certain point, I took a stand to get away from him." "He would talk about masturbation, female ejaculation... Comments are out of place. Every approach to me always included touch - a hand on the shoulder, the inner thigh, the waist. It just drove me crazy," Sapir testifies.
One day, Dana claims, she saw Hofstein masturbating during the broadcast. She decided to ask the personnel officer to take care of the matter. At the same time, Sapir, the head of the department at the time, asked to have a conversation with Hofstein. "I asked the head of the department not to open a complaint. Just reset it a bit. But it turned out a lot more than I wanted. What was important to me was to convey to him the message that you don't talk like that in a work environment. I didn't want to complain." Contrary to her explicit request, the head of the department filed a complaint with the personnel officer. Hofstein was summoned to the commander for a reprimand and the story was released to the media. "The details were very incriminating," Sapir says. "And of course they told him that it was me who complained about him. I wanted to bury myself. Fill with calls from media professionals. It was really hard for me to keep getting to the station, but I couldn't help but get there. And I continued to work with him on investigative reports and he would give me harsh, disappointed looks. He didn't understand what happened at all, he didn't understand that he was wrong and why he was being approached with that."