Kol Israel

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Israel Radio Headquarters, Jerusalem (2007)
OB vans of Reshet Gimel (2011)

Kol Israel ( Hebrew קול ישראל Kol Yisrael , "The Voice of Israel"), the public broadcasting establishment of Israel .

history

Kol Israel was inaugurated on May 14, 1948 with the reading of the Israeli declaration of independence by David Ben Gurion in Tel Aviv . The transmitter took over the facilities of the former Palestine Broadcasting Corporation ( Palestine Broadcasting Service , or PBS ), which in 1936 as the official radio of the Palestine mandate had been established. The station of PBS was initially in Ramallah , but after 1948 it came under Jordanian administration. Kol Israel's first programs were broadcast from Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa .

In March 1950 there was the first international program under the name Kol Tzijon la-Gola (“The Voice of Zion for the Diaspora”). These programs were produced by the World Zionist Organization in collaboration with the Jewish Agency . In 1958 the international and national departments merged and from now on they broadcast exclusively under the name Kol Israel .

In 1965, the Israel Broadcasting Authority ( Hebrew רשות השידור Raschut hashidur ) was founded as an independent public corporation.

In 2015 it was dissolved by law in favor of the creation of a new public corporation. With fewer employees (around 450 Raschut-HaSchidur employees were taken over, around 1,500 dismissed and around 450 new employees), a lower budget and changed supervisory bodies, it should take over the tasks of the previous authority in a new broadcasting house. The broadcasts of Rashut Hashidur will be discontinued on May 13, 2016; The successor organization Ta'agid ha-Shidur ha-Jisre'eli is scheduled to start broadcasting the following day. There was hardly any detailed information about the program structure and content at the time the broadcast began.

Programs

Kol Israel could be heard on the following programs:

  • Kol Jisra'el (IBA International) - Shipments a. a. in English , French , Persian , Spanish , Yiddish and Russian . Broadcasting on shortwave radio was discontinued at the end of March 2008. Since then, Kol Jisra'el has only distributed his programs via the Internet . Only the programs in Persian (Farsi) continued to be broadcast via shortwave in Iran . However, the shortwave system in Jawne was completely shut down at the end of 2013.
  • Reshet Alef (“Netz A”) - word-based broadcasts on general and cultural topics, news in English and French, programs by Reshet Moreschet (see below).
  • Reschet Bet ("Netz B") - diverse information program in magazine style.
  • Reshet Gimel ("Network C") - entertainment program with Israeli music .
  • Reshet Dalet ("Network D") - Programs in Arabic .
  • REQA - radio programs for immigrants. Sends in 13 languages, mainly in Russian, but also in Amharic, French, Spanish, Ladino, Yiddish, Aramaic, etc.
  • 88 FM - entertainment program with international pop music .
  • Kol ha-Musika ("Voice of Music") - Classical music .
  • Reshet Moreschet (“Network of Tradition”) - religious programs.

Some of the programs will be continued by the new broadcasting authority from 2016, albeit in a different form.

See also

Web links

Commons : Kol Israel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1287 kHz goes back into operation. Retrieved September 7, 2017 .