Israel broadcasting authority

Israeli public broadcasting icon, journalist Prof. Gideon Kutz dies at age 78

Kutz served for four decades as Voice of Israel's correspondent in Paris and was one of the most recognizable voices of Israeli public broadcasting in the French and European arena.

Israeli radio journalist Gideon Kutz. October 11, 2019.
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi attends the Special Committee for the Communications Law at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament on December 9, 2025

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

Attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, in the Israeli parliament on September 30, 2025.

Israel's broadcasting law poses 'grave risk,' A-G says, urging High Court to hear petitions

Israel's media in the eye of the storm.

Inside Israel's media war: Who shapes the narrative now?


Growing pains: KAN’s first month on the air

News programs are good and getting better, but the entertainment shows are somewhat juvenile.

FILE PHOTO: Employees work in the offices of Kan, the new Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, in Tel Aviv, Israel November 3, 2016.

Finally, live and on air

Kan hits the airwaves with a whole slate of programming, including ‘Carpool Karaoke’

Channel 1 news anchor Geula Even Sa'ar

Court cites ‘elephant in the room’ in criticism of broadcast law

An injunction issued by the court on Sunday night stopped the splitting of the news department from the new Israel Broadcasting Corporation (Kan) until petitions against it have been heard.

ARIEH O’SULLIVAN, ‘IBA English News’ anchor, plays the blues as the Israel Broadcasting Authority is shut down, in front of the IBA building in the capital’s Romema neighborhood

Things have changed, though the voices are familiar

There were numerous references made to Israel Radio throughout the day, along with remarks about a fresh start and the station’s new slogan – Kan v’achshav – which translates as “here and now.”

FILE PHOTO: Employees work in the offices of Kan, the new Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, in Tel Aviv, Israel November 3, 2016.

A new and free IBC

The channel might be funded by the government, but Kan belongs to Israel’s citizens

FILE PHOTO: Employees work in the offices of Kan, the new Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, in Tel Aviv, Israel November 3, 2016.

IBA says goodbye to Eurovision, prompting confusion

Israel's future participation in question; Portugal takes win, Israel ranks 23rd

IBA'S OFER NACHSON appears on the Eurovision final Saturday night

When broadcasting makes the news

After over eight decades of history, public broadcasting is scheduled to start anew on Monday

ARIEH O’SULLIVAN, ‘IBA English News’ anchor, plays the blues as the Israel Broadcasting Authority is shut down, in front of the IBA building in the capital’s Romema neighborhood

The news in English... is over

A first-person account from an IBA journalist looking back on decades of reporting as the saga over the Authority's future draws to an end.

ARIEH O’SULLIVAN, ‘IBA English News’ anchor, plays the blues as the Israel Broadcasting Authority is shut down, in front of the IBA building in the capital’s Romema neighborhood

Rivlin lauds Reshet Bet and Channel 1 after abrupt end

David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding prime minister, didn’t like the concept of public broadcasting, according to Rivlin, and instead wanted state broadcasting he could control.

A broadcasting room at Israel Radio

After 49 years, broadcast authority closes

When the Palestine Broadcast Service was founded in 1936, It broadcast in Hebrew, Arabic and English.

David Bitan