Israel's secret-keeper seeks censorship reform


  • World
  • Thursday, 30 Jul 2015

Sima Vaknin-Gill, Israel chief military censor, reads a local Israeli newspaper in her office in Tel Aviv July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Nir Elias

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Sima Vaknin-Gill may be Israel's last chief military censor. And she makes no secret of welcoming that.

After 10 years in a role that stirs frequent annoyance and occasional dread among journalists, Vaknin-Gill wants her office, which dates back to the country's wartime founding, replaced with a streamlined civilian agency more in sync with contemporary media freedoms.

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