Not quite sure how things work in Israel but Channel 2 is private.
“Herzog’s speech was cut short since, Channel 2 anchor Yonit Levi said, it was ‘blatant election propaganda.’
“MK Shelly Yachimovich, who is in the third slot on the Zionist Union’s Knesset slate, said that Netanyahu’s address was ‘delivered despite a severe warning from the White House, and while [Netanyahu] was aware of the damage he caused while preparing for the speech.’ Yachimovich, who was also on the Channel 2 panel, nevertheless conceded that ‘most Israelis agreed with the content of the speech.’
“She said Herzog would have made ‘exactly the same speech’ but with the difference that the US president and the vice president would be in attendance.”
http://www.unitedjerusalem.org/index2.asp?id=1879585
LOL, so basically the leftist Yachimovich is admitting that the WH opposition to the speech was what was political!