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Sunday, October 15, 2017
Netanyahu confirms renewed efforts to close new public broadcaster
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirms reports that he is planning to close the Kan public broadcasting corporation, on the air for less than six months, as a cash-saving measure to limit expected across-the-board budget cuts for 2019.
“In today’s meeting of the coalition heads [Interior Minister Aryeh] Deri proposed looking into closing the corporation in order to find sources for government projects,” Netanyahu says in a statement.
“We are talking about an annual saving of some 500 million shekels,” he adds.
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