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Former IBA director-general Joseph Barel dies, aged 79

Barel was passionate about the importance of an English-language news broadcast, and the prevelence of such today shows he was ahead of his time.

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IDF soldiers at the national military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on Memorial Day, May 1, 2017‏

The Voice of the Nation is silenced

FILE PHOTO: Employees work in the offices of Kan, the new Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, in Tel Aviv, Israel November 3, 2016.

Kan reports rise in ratings

AVI MOSKOWITZ (left) toasting life with a Beer Bazaar patron.

Grapevine: The Polish connection


Rivlin lauds Reshet Bet and Channel 1 after abrupt end

David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding prime minister, didn’t like the concept of public broadcasting, according to Rivlin, and instead wanted state broadcasting he could control.

A broadcasting room at Israel Radio

Historic ‘Mabat’ news program airs last episode, IBC bill goes to final vote

Nearly every reporter on the program had something to say about the broadcast being the last.

The final episode of ‘Mabat’

Will this be Israel’s last Eurovision?

Public broadcasting deal could endanger airing rights to singing competition and World Cup.

Imri Ziv will be representing Israel in Eurovision 2017 after winning the reality show ‘The Next Star’

Watch: Channel 1 anchor in tears, announces last broadcast

The new public broadcasting cooperation was set to start on June 15, a special Knesset committee that is preparing the law announced.

Channel 1 news anchor Geula Even Sa'ar

Public broadcast compromise approved in first reading

Politicians on the opposition say Netanyahu is trying to make a news broadcast that will be more favorable to him.

SHOW US the money. Lawmakers attend a preliminary vote on a bill at the Knesset

Knesset passes law to delay IBC launch to May 15

Joint committee weighs further postponing launch to June.

TOURISM MINISTER Yariv Levin addresses the Knesset plenum on behalf of the government, as Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein looks on.

Knesset expected to pass public broadcast law this week

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Grapevine: The sound of history

Leading figures in the project include Izzy Mann, who is the unofficial historian of Israel Radio, Arye Orgad, who is both a radio and television personality, and Raya Admoni, an Israel Radio program producer.

CHEMI PERES with Michael Douglas.

Channel 1 cameraman becomes latest victim of tensions in Israeli broadcasting

Other employees of Israel Radio and Channel One have had myocardial infarctions in recent weeks, and several others have collapsed without suffering a heart attack.

Magen David Adom ambulance.

Israel Broadcasting Authority workers hold protest Seder

Public Broadcasting remains controversial issue.

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