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Police summon journalist for questioning over claim he shoved Sara Netanyahu’s aide

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Police have summoned Channel 13 news legal correspondent Aviad Glickman for questioning under caution, after the reporter was filmed allegedly shoving one of Sara Netanyahu’s associates during a libel hearing in May.

Glickman received the summons on Sunday and will be interviewed by Tel Aviv police in the coming days, according to Hebrew media reports Monday.

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara greenlit the investigation into Glickman after initially resisting police’s demand that he be questioned as a suspect, Channel 12 reported.

Gal Dabush, the employee of the prime minister’s wife who was allegedly shoved, filed a complaint over the incident, which occurred as attendees of the hearing attempted to make their way out of the courtroom, leading to a bottleneck at the exit.

Glickman had previously been summoned for questioning in July over the incident, but Baharav-Miara contacted police at the time, insisting they reconsider the move and first examine the context, while citing “the necessary procedural caution needed for investigating journalists in relation to their work and to........

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