Therefore, it was clarified that:
"5. In the circumstances that arose, the radio management reached an agreement that your removal from the microphone and the suspension of your provision of services should be continued for an additional significant period, due to the severity of what was said, due to your refusal to retract and apologize, and due to the fact that this serious incident comes shortly after the previous incident and shows that you have not internalized its lessons at all.
- At this stage, the termination of your service to the station will continue until at least 21.12.2022 at 13:00, at which time we will reconsider the matter and will be summoned to express your position. I would like to emphasize that in any case, you will not be able to broadcast on the station again without the station receiving guarantees of its satisfaction, because additional events that are likely to impose considerable financial fines on it will be avoided."
- On December 21, 2022, another clarification meeting was held, in which Zehavi insisted on his refusal to apologize or offer guarantees, and on December 23, 2022, the Director General sent an official letter announcing the continuation of "the termination of your services to the station, until you receive notice of your understanding of the harm to the words you said on the air, which constitute a violation of the Authority's rules of ethics, as well as the nature of the guarantees that you will provide that the matter will not be repeated. After receiving the notice, we will reconsider the matter and you will be summoned to express your position."
- On December 26, 2022, the Second Authority imposed a total financial sanction on the defendant in the sum of ILS 29, 000 for the statement (which was reduced in a decision of February 8, 2023 following a request for reconsideration to the sum of ILS 22, 000, which includes ILS 7, 000 sanction and ILS 15, 000 for repeated violation).
- From that date, an exchange of letters began between the parties - including, on December 28, 2022, the CEO of the Zelkovnik station sent an e-mail confirming Zahavi to involve a lawyer in the suspension proceedings, and subsequently, on January 1, 2023, Zehavi's attorney sent a letter detailing legal arguments against the legality of the suspension and the termination of payment of his salary. In response, on January 9, 2023, the defendant replied that it was waiting for Zehavi's willingness to formulate an apology and discuss a mechanism for preventing future damages.
- On January 25, 2023, a meeting was held at the office of the plaintiffs' attorney in the presence of Adv. Dr. Hillel Sommer, and on February 5, 2023, Adv. Sommer sent an e-mail detailing the defendant's demands for Zehavi's return: the publication of an agreed apology, a commitment to recognize the authority of the management and the editor-in-chief, observance of the rules of the Second Authority, and the imposition of 50% of the fines imposed for his remarks.
- Despite the parties' attempts to settle the dispute, the parties entrenched themselves in their positions as detailed and therefore, on June 7, 2023, the statement of claim was filed in the sum of ILS 2, 600, 000 (for fee reasons, after it was originally set at ILS 3, 988, 027.5).
The parties' arguments: