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Communications c'mtee approves splitting Karhi's media legislation amid legal adviser's opposition

Under the split, the first part of the bill will deal mainly with restructuring Israel’s broadcasting oversight system, including laying the groundwork for a new media regulator.

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi attends the Special Committee for the Communications Law at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament on December 9, 2025
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IDF troops combatting Hezbollah drone threat with borrowed fishing nets - report

 View of the offices of Israel's public broadcaster KAN in Jerusalem. January 31, 2023.

Israel’s Eurovision future at risk over KAN funding bill, EBU warns

Noam Bettan with dancers

Whatever happens at the Eurovision final, Israelis feel that Noam Bettan has already won


Closing Army Radio: The beginning of the end of Israel's public broadcast

There is something anachronistic about an army station in a democratic country.

A SOLDIER from Army Radio at the station in 2013.

‘Rabenu’ looks at Rabbi Nahman and his followers

More than 200 years after his death, Rabbi Nahman still wields an enormous influence over his followers.

SHULI RAND appears in ‘Rabbenu.’

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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Grapevine: Familiarity breeds contempt

President Reuven Rivlin voting for the 23rd Knesset on Monday

The sudden firing of Lucy Aharish from KAN

KAN said its decision to fire Aharish was part of its staff cutbacks due to the coronavirus cutback, but we don't buy it.

Channel 2 television's Lucy Aharish

Lucy Aharish fired from Kan 11 after taking part in rally

Aharish is a veteran journalist and presenter who has appeared on many networks, including i24 and the now-defunct Channel 10.

Lucy Aharish and Tzhai Halevy talk interfaith love on CNN.

Endangered Meretz to vote on cancelling primary on Sunday

Sa'ar vows to win 40 seats if he beats Netanyahu

Meretz leader, Tamar Zandberg voting

Kan forced to issue an apology by the Journalism ethics committee

After airing a report regarding the unreliable nature of Kosher certificates, Kan were told to issue and apology due to various inaccuracies found within the report.

"Kan," the new public broadcaster's logo.

Images of women on adverts vandalized in Israeli city

“We must bring to justice whoever perpetrates an act of vandalism and takes the law into his own hands,” acting Ashdod Mayor Avi Amsalem told Kan.

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Releasing women from bondage

A new series which began this week on KAN 11, shows a different aspect of religious life – the unfettering of women whose husbands deny them a halachic divorce.

A chain, symbolic of women chained to marriage