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Oscar the Grouch, left, and his Israeli cousin Moishe Oofnik visited the Jewish federations’ General Assembly in New Orleans to promote 'Shalom Sesame,' a version of 'Sesame Street' created for Israel’s Educational Television channel, November 2010. (Daniel Sieradski via JTA)
August 15, 2018, 11:20 pm
Hebrew Educational TV goes off the air after 50 years
Country’s oldest station leaving ‘with sadness and love’ to be replaced by Kan Educational
By JTA
Rochelle Furstenberg
August 14, 2018, 10:21 am
Rochelle Furstenberg
Educational TV takes its final breath — what a pity
Israel’s oldest broadcast company shaped generations of kids with intelligent, sensitive programming. It was axed for no good reason
Minister of Communications Ayoub Kara holds a press conference on moves to shut down the Al Jazeera offices in Jerusalem, August 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 4, 2018, 8:48 am
Minister slams public broadcaster document rating journalists’ looks, skills
Communications Minister Ayoub Kara says it is ‘inappropriate’ that the Kan review paper on IBA employees contained offensive remarks
By TOI staff
Ethiopian monks gather outside an Ethiopian Church owned complex from which police evicted them on May 31, 2018. The eldest, aged 84, stands on the left. (Channel 10 News screenshot)
June 12, 2018, 3:23 am
Ethiopia said to freeze Jerusalem embassy move over anger at abuse of monks
Ethiopia denies ever having considered move or recalling ambassador after footage shows police rudely addressing, evicting Ethiopian monks from Jerusalem complex
By TOI staff
Screenshot from Channel 10 News shows police officers removing a handcuffed Ethiopian monk from an Ethiopian Church-owned property in Jerusalem, on May 31, 2018,
June 5, 2018, 1:58 pm
Ethiopian ambassador threatens diplomatic crisis after police accost monks
Video footage shows police rudely addressing, evicting Ethiopian monks from Jerusalem complex; elderly monk said injured
By Sue Surkes
Portrait of journalist and broadcaster Daniel Peer, who died September 28, 2017 after a stroke, pictured at the Israel TV television studios in Jerusalem, January 31, 2010. (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)
September 28, 2017, 10:24 am
Veteran TV anchor Daniel Pe’er dies at 74 after stroke
President Reuven Rivlin eulogizes late journalist as ‘man of action and a professional of the highest level’
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon in the Knesset, June 1, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 9, 2017, 12:23 am
Kahlon says no phone calls with Netanyahu in months
Indicating a decline in relations, finance minister says he was surprised, disillusioned by coalition crisis over new public broadcaster
By TOI staff
From a heartbroken fan of 88FM, a poster that reads 'Don't take my music from me!!! 88FM" (Courtesy Karen May Metcalf)
June 1, 2017, 3:57 pm
Fans of 88FM radio plan protest over new media authority’s changes
Mishmar 88, the fan club of the rock, jazz and world music station, won’t accept the transformation to just playing hits
By Jessica Steinberg
Staffers at IBA's English news department departing the authority's offices in 2017 (Courtesy IBA English news)
May 25, 2017, 10:03 am
With abrupt closure of IBA, English news staff never even got to say goodbye
While daily broadcast was perceived as an interloper, it offered a significant public service to English speakers in Israel
By Jessica Steinberg
The studio of the new Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation on May 14, 2017. (Yossi Aloni/Kan)
May 15, 2017, 2:55 pm
Amid reports of sabotage, new state broadcaster kicks off to bumpy start
Inaugural radio programs riddled with technical errors as Kan corporation takes place of shuttered predecessor
By TOI staff and AFP
The newly-built control room at the offices of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, in Tel Aviv. August 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
May 14, 2017, 11:49 pm
High Court temporarily puts news division back in broadcaster’s hands
Court will decide Monday whether to permanently nullify government legislation that separated current affairs dealings from the new public entity
By Jacob Magid
Representing Israel with the song "I feel alive" Imri Ziv (C), performs on stage with two dancers during the Grand Final rehearsal of 62nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 at the International Exhibition Centre, in Kiev, on May 12, 2017. (Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)
May 14, 2017, 6:29 pm
UK media falsely report Israel leaving Eurovision
IBA host bids farewell as broadcaster shuts down, in comments misinterpreted by foreign media as saying Jewish state was exiting music competition
By JTA
A television showing Channel 1, displaying a message reading "Our broadcast has ended." (Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)
May 14, 2017, 3:53 am
With emotional Eurovision farewell, Channel 1 signs off
Over 200 million worldwide viewers watch Israel part with its oldest channel, before station fades to screen announcing: ‘Our broadcast has ended. 1968-2017’
By Raoul Wootliff
Israeli singer Imri Ziv performs on stage during the final of the 62nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kiev, on May 13, 2017. (AFP / SERGEI SUPINSKY)
May 14, 2017, 2:30 am
Israel fails to wow at Eurovision as Portugal scores surprise win
Imri Ziv finishes disappointing 23rd, as announcer tells world Israel will no longer appear due to IBA shut-down; Belgium’s Jewish Zionist entry comes in 4th
By TOI staff
Ron Kampeas
May 11, 2017, 11:22 pm
Ron Kampeas
The day the newscast died
Channel 1 simply was Israel: austere, serious, faithful, and with the camaraderie and purpose that meant ‘home’
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