Charles Enderlin
Charles Enderlin (born in 1945 with Paris) is a Journaliste and to defer French and Israeli. He is the corresponding one to Jerusalem of the television channel France 2.
Youth
After the divorce of their parents, his sister and are high for him in Lorraine, in the area of Metz, by her mother and her grandparents maternal, Juifs Austrians who fled the Anschluss in 1938.
During the demonstrations coeds of May 1968, he is member of the strike committee of the medical college of Nancy. In December 1968, set on the thoughts of Theodor Herzl, it decides to emigrate towards Israel to live in a Kibboutz. It takes the Israeli Nationalité with the beginning of the year 1970.
Career
It enters in Journalisme in 1971 for a radio Israeli. In 1973, it becomes corresponding of RMC and the following year editor to Kol Israel.
In 1981, it becomes the corresponding one to Jerusalem of the chain of French tévision Antenne 2 (become France 2) and acquires the title international reporter in 1988. In 1991, he is the chief of the office of France 2 in Israel. He is also vice-president of the Association of the correspondents of the foreign press in Jerusalem. Its reports on the israélo-Palestinian Conflit caused hostile reactions of the partisans of the two camps.
The controversy on the death of Mohamed Al-Durah
See the detailed article Business Mohamed Al-DurahAmong its reports, the image filmeds the September 30th 2000 by the cameraman Talal Abou Rahmeh with the crossroads of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip, among those which is caused the most reactions in France, at the beginning of the the Second Intifada. Abou Rahmeh filmed and Enderlin with accompanying notes death in a shooting of Mohamed Al-Durah, a Palestinian child).
The Israeli army, after an investigation, affirmed that the shootings did not come from the Israeli position.
In several talks in the press or the emissions of mediation of France 2, Charles Enderlin affirmed to seek objectivity in his reports and his comments. He affirms in Le Monde of November 30th, 2004: “ As from the moment when a press correspondent starts to work by taking account of the possible reactions that its information will cause, it is finished ”.
The direction of France 2 supports its journalist, maintains his position and announces to have carried felt sorry for against X for slandering. October 19th, 2006, the 17th room of the magistrates' court of Paris condemned for public slandering the director of the Internet site Media-ratings which had relayed the suspicion of faking of the report expressed by the Israeli French-speaking news agency Metula News Agency. The court estimated that against survey carried out by CARRIED OUT based " primarily on extrapolations and amalgames". The court continues by affirming qu'" no Israeli official authority never granted the least credit against investigation of CARRIED OUT ". The agency Media-Ratings announced to want to appeal.
November 28th, 2006, the magistrates' court of Paris débouté the company France 2 and its correspondent in Israel, Charles Enderlin, their requests against Pierre Lurçat continued for slandering within the framework of the business Al-Lasted.