Article: Topaz physically attacks 'Ma'ariv' critic's face

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Jerusalem Post
06-05-1995
TELEVISION entertainer Dudu Topaz was accused Friday of attacking a journalist who wrote unfavorable reviews about his weekly Reshut Habidur program on Channel 2.

"Topaz ripped my glasses off, broke them, scratched my face and told me that he wished I never again saw the light of day," Ma'ariv television and entertainment critic Meir Schnitzer said in a complaint he filed with Tel Aviv police.

According to Schnitzer, the incident occurred while the two were sitting in the Tel Aviv Cinemateque on Friday for the premier of the new Israeli film Eitz Hadomim, when Topaz turned to him and said: "Are you Mr. Schnitzer from Ma'ariv?"

Schnitzer said that when he ...

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