Yossi Mizrahi, the investigative reporter for Channel 12 News, has been chosen as an “Avir Quality of Government” laureate for 2025 in the media category. The selection was announced Tuesday by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, which said the award recognizes his journalistic work and his contribution to exposing public wrongdoing.
In its justification, the committee said Mizrahi was selected for his “professional integrity, courage and determination in exposing public injustices and governmental failures.” It added that he “places the public interest and the public’s right to know above all,” and provides “reliable, accurate and well-founded information while maintaining professional ethics, journalistic fairness and human sensitivity.” The panel also said he “fulfills the historic role of free journalism as the ‘watchdog of democracy’” and is “an example of responsible journalism committed to democracy, transparency and integrity.”
Alongside Mizrahi, this year’s honorees include actress Rivka Michaeli, who will receive a lifetime achievement award, economic commentator and Channel 13 workers’ committee chair Matan Hodorov, MK Merav Ben Ari, retired Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon, attorney Shlomit Barnea Farago, retired Judge Varda Vit-Livne, Prof. Mohammed Watad, Prof. Itai Ater, Dr. Husin Trabia, Michal Tchernovitzki, and the civic aid group “Hasiua HaEzrachit, Standing Up Against Political Violence.”
The public committee was headed by retired Justice Dahlia Dorner. She said this year’s awards go to people who contributed to society, democracy and good governance, at a time when “winds of storm threatened to harm the foundations of Israeli democracy and the rule of law.” According to Dorner, the winners represent “transparency, integrity, proper administration, healing and unity.” The award ceremony is scheduled for September 8 in Tel Aviv.
