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Quote : "A Jerusalem court rejected the petition shortly after it was filed, and hours before 'The Bibi Files' is scheduled to debut at the Toronto Film Festival"

Censorship in the only democracy of the Middle-East ;)

full article : https://archive.ph/iMed0

I don’t understand - the (implausible and unenforceable) request to censor was rejected, right?

I think the idea is that having the Prime Minister even request to attempt censorship of civilian information, and be shot down like this, is an embarrassment that makes the whole country, and its attempts to broadcast a good image to the world, look like corrupt, stupid rubes.

(Yeah you can tell I bloody hate this government.)

This is going to be an example of the Streisand effect where attempting to hide it will result in more people viewing it

It may still be not available / accessible in Israel under other laws.

> No footage of the police interrogation has ever been aired in Israel due to privacy laws, and it is unclear if the film will be shown in the country – certainly while Netanyahu's corruption trial continues at Jerusalem District Court.

How could the airing be blocked in another country?