\r\n\tIsraeli Culture and Sport Minister Limor Livnat has removed a sports reporter from her press conference after the two got into a shouting match.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\t Livnat held the press conference in Tel Aviv on Monday, during which she presented the conclusions of a committee headed by former state accountant-general Yaron Zelicha which focused on reforming Israel’s soccer leagues.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tAs Livnat was presenting the committee’s findings, Haaretz sports reporter Moshe Boker launched a long tirade which included a series of questions and accusations directed at Livnat and at the committee members.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tBoker alleged that Livnat and Zelicha were in multiple conflicts of interest when it came to the soccer leagues.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tWhen Boker concluded his tirade, Livnat fired back, asking Boker whether he “sleeps at night,” and then accused him of “defamation, aspersions and lies.” She then suggested that those present read an article in an online Israeli publication which exposed Boker’s alleged lack of objectivity.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tBoker continued to interrupt Livnat’s response, insisting his questions were not defamation and were not an attack of a personal nature. Livnat shouted back, “I listened to your defamation without interrupting. Now you won’t interrupt me.”<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tThe shouting match continued as Boker continued to interrupt Livnat, who yelled back at him, “You won’t interrupt me” 14 times.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tShe then asked her security guard to remove Boker from the room. As Boker was being removed, he continued to shout at Livnat and she responded, “You will not turn this into a circus.”<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2013-07-10 13:14:04","content_date_finish":"2013-07-10 13:14:04","content_date_register":"2013-07-10 13:14:04","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"120287","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"4037441380","attach_date_register":"2013-07-10 13:14:09","attach_id":"112279","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"390","attach_img_height":"250","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"1550","visit_date_last":"2025-05-09 00:41:08","attach_title":"Israeli sports minister got in brawl with reporter","node_title":"news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53}]"}]]