Iba news

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 responds to public broadcasting saga from Vietnam

Geula Even-Saar to be main news anchor on Kan.

Rivlin speaks in Jerusalem at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

The Israel broadcasting saga – resolution looms amid political shenanigans

Histadrut declares work dispute at IBA, IBC and within the civil service.

ISRAEL BROADCASTING AUTHORITY employees block the street during a protest against the Histadrut labor federation in Jerusalem yesterday.

Kahlon refuses to back down in furor over new public broadcaster

Bennett: “The public doesn’t understand it, people do not understand what you are fighting about.”

Moshe Kahlon

March 18, 2017: A nurse’s killing

It seems to me that a simple solution for reducing the ongoing violence in emergency rooms and medical clinics would be to post a policeman in each and every one!

Letters

Netanyahu apologizes for disparaging 'Mizrahi gene' comment

Zionist Union MK Amir Peretz, who is of Moroccan descent, said that “what was activated in [Netanyahu] was his racist gene.”

Moshe Kahlon and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [File]

The ax falls on the IBA

This also means an end to English-language broadcasts on Israel’s public service, such as the IBA News.

THE ISRAEL Broadcasting Authority’s building, located in Jerusalem.

Media comment: The end of the never-ending IBA saga?

Media bias is not some imaginary wand that politicians wave about and which the media claims is, in a sense, “fake news.”

PROTESTERS DISRUPT traffic yesterday in Jerusalem to protest the closing of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.

Time running out for Israel Broadcasting Authority

Kahlon says that he will find a way to help as many IBA employees as possible to find work at IBC or other governmental offices.

IBA HEADQUARTERS is located on Jerusalem’s Jaffa Road.

Veteran Israeli journalist Yitzhak Livni dead at 82

Livni was an all-around media personality who worked in both the print and electronic media.

Yitzhak Livni

Grapevine: Bennett takes time out for museum tour

Not forgetting the need to connect with the younger generation, Bennett made a point of stopping to say hello to a group of schoolchildren from Modi’in while they were touring in the galleries.

BIBLE LANDS MUSEUM director Amanda Weiss with Education Minister Naftali Bennett