Channel 2 news anchorman Gadi Sukenik resigns after 12 years
Sukenik decides to resign and start a career in the business sector; no replacement found yet.
By Asaf CarmelGadi Sukenik announced his resignation from the Channel Two news company, where he has been an presenter on the central news edition daily since 2001.
Sukenik came to the decision on his own to leave the job, and told company executives a week ago. However, the announcement was not released until Thursday.
A replacement has yet to be found for the 54-year-old journalist, so he will continue broadcasting the 8 P.M news with Yonit Levy for at least another month.
Channel Two released a statement after Haaretz published news of the resignation, reading, "After 12 years in the news company and more than six years anchoring the central news edition, Gadi Sukenik has decided to resign and start in the business sector." According to the statement, Sukenik is due to quit by the end of 2007.
Sukenik said, "I thank all of my colleagues at the news company and to all the coworkers at Channel Two for the challenging and wonderful years together. In my opinion, the time has come for a break and a change. Also today, as always, I am proud to be a part of the most important and leading news body in Israel."
Avi Weiss, the acting CEO of Channel Two news, said, "On behalf of myself and the entire news company, I want to thank Gadi for the devotion, the professionalism, and the successful cooperation in the years he worked in the company."
Sukenik started his career in 1978 as the financial correspondent for Israel Radio. In 1990, he moved to Channel One as the crime correspondent, and later was promoted to political correspondent of the channel. In 1995, Sukenik transferred to Channel Two as a senior political correspondent and presented Friday's main news edition along with Emmannuel Rosen. In 1998 he stopped working as a correspondent and presented his own news show, "Five with Gadi Sukenik." In 2001, he was asked to present the central news edition instead of Yaakov Eilon.
Six months ago, Sukenik was a victim of a widely publicized verbal attack after former President Katsav refused to answer his questions regarding sex crime allegations in a press conference.
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Channel Two News presenter Gadi Sukenik. (Channel Two) |
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Thank you for coming to our class room during school today if your not the right guy im sorry
Frankly, I'd been thinking for some time already that the impressive Yonit Levy was overshadowing Sukenik somewhat. And I wondered how his well-developed macho was feeling about that.... She's no longer the shy reserved girl that she used to be.....
I knew that in our planet I would definetly find someone to get excited about sex. However, I also assumed that the same someone is also a bigot to the extend as to pick on peripherals rather than the substance: Multiethnicity, multiculturalism of the population in Israel. Now, deal with that, of course after getting excited about the "sex"...
Mr. Gadi Sukenik has fulfilled more than it was expected of him. That is the quality of a professional person whose primary promises were not all that great. So now is the time to put in a public TV station a representative of other group in the multicultural society that Israel is . A women, a Sephardi-Mizrahi of any sex, will came to show that a great expaectation is to be achieved by those who have been looked over since the beguinning of the Public TV; please therte is a rich amount of candidates for the post: Thank you Mr. Sukenik, you did'nt want to be a Haim Yavin.....