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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?


A fight to remove politicians from public broadcasting

Screenwriters’ Guild chairman Amit Lior holds a traveling hunger strike against the bureaucracy.

THE ISRAEL BROADCASTING AUTHORITY headquarters in Jerusalem are located in the historic former Shaare Zedek hospital building on Jaffa Road.

Metro Grapevine: Sorry situation

News briefs from around the nation!

DOES PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu believe in peace? Maybe not.

Media Comment: Do we really need public broadcasting?

It is high time to close down the public broadcasters – all of them, including Galatz.

IBA EMPLOYEES protest outside the Knesset yesterday. The sign reads, ‘Democracy=Public Broadcasting’

Stormy debate on public broadcasting is off the air for now

Cabinet vote on reversing plans for IBA delayed by at least three weeks.

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Israeli Media Watchdog: Coalition deal on public broadcasting is illegal

"The coalition deal makes us a monarchy and that is unacceptable according to our Basic Laws," says Tomer Naor of the Movement for Quality Government.

Netanyahu is seen delivering his speech to the U.S. Congress on television screens in an electronics store in a Jerusalem shopping mall March 3, 2015

Netanyahu won’t punish backers of new broadcasting entity, associates say

Netanyahu will convene the heads of the six parties in his coalition to discuss a bill that would close down the IBC, which is set to replace the current Israel Broadcasting Authority.

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New public broadcasting service plans to go on the air January 1

There is already considerable opposition to Bitan’s proposal, including within his own Likud party.

David Bitan à en action

Opinion: Is Netanyahu muzzling the media?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is stifling free speech by weakening Israel’s commercial and public broadcasters.

PM Netanyahu: Dear Arab citizens of Israel--take part in our society in droves

Netanyahu didn’t quite get his way with public broadcasting

Recent actions reflect major problems involved in Netanyahu’s insistence on serving as communications minister, a post which he uses to promote his personal political survival.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a recent weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem

Knesset approves amendment to Public Broadcasting Law

New public broadcaster to start operations in 2017.

THE ISRAEL Broadcasting Authority’s building, located in Jerusalem.