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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


Knesset passes controversial television bill, closes plenum until October 28

The law increases the number of channels broadcast on Israel's Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) system, known as Idan Plus.

 Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi seeks every legal means to increase state support for Channel 14, without any constraints on some of its more disturbing content, the writer complains.

'Approved a deal and then did nothing': Gantz attacks Netanyahu in rounds of interviews

The National Unity leader's statements come following extensive interviews with major Israeli broadcasters, KAN, Channel 12, Channel 13, and Channel 14.

 Head of the National Unity party Minister Benny Gantz holds a press conference in Ramat Gan, May 18, 2024.

Israel’s Jewish humor show offers a serious message for a dark time: We will survive

Nearly every sketch in the show satirizes an event from millennia’s worth of Jewish and Israeli religious texts and history. Its guiding principle is irreverence. 

 Children and their families supporting the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation "KAN" protest against the new government's intention to close "KAN" and "KAN" education channel, in Tel Aviv, February 3, 2023.

Family of Haymanot Kasau, missing since February, call for country-wide search day

According to statements issued by Kasau's family, intense searches for the girl will be conducted between 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. on on Thursday.

A police car

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda’s newspaper comes to life in the new series ‘The Deer’

The Deer (HaZvi in Hebrew) was a newspaper founded by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the leading proponent of making Hebrew into the language of the Jewish homeland.

 The Deer series on KAN.

Hostage families appear on Israeli TV show ‘Sorry for Asking’

The questions they were asked ranged from: “Do you dream about them at night?” to “What is the last thing you did together?”

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

Kibbutz Be'eri dining hall reopens a month after Hamas massacre

Kan also reported that the dining hall is used mainly by those who are working for the Be'eri Printing Press.

 Photos of the destruction in Kibbutz Be'eri taken in the beginning of November 2023.

Zehu Ze! to broadcast special performance on Kan 11 Thursday night

The performance will feature special musical arrangements by composer/musician Amir Lekner, who will also play the piano and flute, as well as a number of other musicians. 

Zehu Ze!

Israel's largest TV channels vow to fight against 'hostile government takeover'

The three channels vowed that, through the joint forum, they "will use all the tools at its disposal to prevent the dangerous move of a hostile takeover of the Israeli media."

 Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi attends digital journalism Conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, January 9, 2023.

'Sovietzka,' 'The Bear,' 'Painkiller': What's new to watch on Israeli TV

Without meaning to, I got hooked on Painkiller, the new Netflix series which presents a fictionalized drama based on the story of OxyContin, the Sackler family, and the opioid epidemic.

 ‘SOVIETZKA’ (Sitting, from left) Evgenia Dodina as the mother, Fira Kantor as the grandmother, and Gera Sandler as the father. (Standing, from left) Lena Fraifeld, Daniel Styopin and Suzanna Papian.