Word: porath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israeli officials initially professed shock and incredulity at the censor's published admissions. Said Uri Porath, a spokesman for Prime Minister Menachem Begin: "If they are listening to phone calls, it is the first time I have heard about it." Mort Dolinsky, head of the Government Press Office, said, "I have never heard of this listening to phone calls and garbling of telexes. I do not think it works that...
Israel, too, was eerily silent about the raid. Begin had instructed his new press secretary, Uri Porath, to prepare an official announcement at short
...notice, not to be given before news reports of the attack came over the wires. Porath waited through all of Sunday evening for a telephone call from Begin authorizing release of the story. Not until the following day, after Amman Radio sketchily outlined the raid as a joint Israeli-Iranian venture, did Israel give its own version of events...
...When Porath telephoned in the government's statement to a holiday skeleton staff at Israel Radio, journalists refused for an hour to believe that the startling report was genuine. Only when Radio Staffer Emmanuel Halperin, Begin's nephew, confirmed the facts with the Prime Minister himself, did the station put the reports...