ISRAEL RADIO INTERNATIONAL

ISRAEL BROADCASTING AUTHORITY

This site is an independently produced and privately supported guide to the IBA radio networks known in Hebrew as

Kol Israel - the Voice of Israel

The latest news from Israel in English can be viewed at Haaretz Jerusalem Post IBA Kol Israel

IBA ENDS MOST SHORTWAVE TRANSMISSION

After some 60 years shortwave broadcasts ended on March 31^st 2008 except for Persian to Iran. Despite many complaints, the IBA made its decision as a cost cutting measure. Emergency financial provision to continue one daily broadcast in Persian was made by the government.

Kol Israel broadcasts may now be heard only via the internet.

A new site has been set up for a live internet audio and on-demand streaming of each day’s programming

http://www.intkolisrael.com

SHORTWAVE FREQUENCY SCHEDULE Summer 2008

Persian to Iran: 1400-1530 UTC (Friday and Saturday 1400-1500 UTC) 13850 and 11605kHz (22 and 25 meter bands)

ENGLISH TV AND RADIO NEWS

NEW WEB SITE FOR THE REKA NETWORK

Includes news, the history of foreign language broadcasting and details of staff

TUNING TO ENGLISH NEWS WITHIN ISRAEL

Listen to the news on the REKA network at 6:30AM, 12:30PM and 8:30PM (local time)

in the AM band on 954 kHz in the center and south of the country and 1575 kHz in the north

and on the FM band: Jerusalem 101.3; Tel Aviv 101.2; Beer Sheva 107.3; Haifa 93.7; Upper Galilee 94.4

For further information click here

NOUVELLES ET PROGRAMMES EN FRANÇAIS

LIVE AUDIO OF 'ISRAEL RADIO INTERNATIONAL'

OTHER AUDIO: HEBREW RESHET BET

ARABIC HOMEPAGE AND LIVE AUDIO

PERSIAN HOMEPAGE

 ISRAEL BROADCASTING AUTHORITY MAIN SITE

HISTORY OF RADIO IN THE COUNTRY

Meet the Director of Israel Radio International

Kol Israel Networks

Kol Israel Local Frequencies

Reshet Bet Home Page RESHET BET LIVE

IBA Information from Israel Information Service Site

NEWS June 2006

Elihu Ben-Onn Host of ‘The Israel Connection’

Receives B'nai B'rith World Center Award for Journalism for 2006

The award jury  conferred Honorable Mention on Israel Radio broadcaster Elihu Ben-Onn (right) in recognition of "The Israeli Connection" - a weekly program he founded and has hosted on Reshet Bet (Channel 2) for the past seven years. The program has carried thousands of interviews with Israelis and Jews from around the world, presenting a glimpse on a wide variety of Jewish communities, on Israel-Diaspora relations, and on the common Jewish destiny. Ben-Onn is a senior radio broadcast journalist and talk show host, covering many facets of the Arab-Israel conflict, the peace process, wars, and elections. He served for 11 years as editor-in-chief of Israel Radio's "Yoman Boker" (Morning Journal) – the country's highest rated news magazine and is one of Israel's best-recognized play-by-play sports announcers. He is a retired Brigadier General, former Israel National Police spokesman, and a graduate of the Hebrew University in international relations and history of the Jewish people

Since its establishment in 1993, the B'nai B'rith World Center Award for Journalism has recognized excellence in reportage on contemporary Diaspora Jewish communities and on the state of Israel-Diaspora relations today in the Israeli print and electronic media. The award seeks to generate greater public interest and knowledge in Israel about current conditions of Jewish communities in the Diaspora and Israel-Diaspora relations. The award carries a cash prize and certificate and is named for the late Wolf Matsdorf, a founding member of the B'nai B'rith World Center Executive Committee and a journalist who published articles of Jewish interest in the Jerusalem Post and in Australian Jewish newspapers, and his late wife Hilda Matsdorf, a pioneer in the field of social work in Israel.

The distinguished award jury includes: Dan Pattir, chair, political analyst and media advisor to Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Menachem Begin; Dr. Yehudith Auerbach, head of the Journalism and Communication Studies division, Bar Ilan University; Eli Eyal, editor-in-chief of Kivunim Hadashim, Journal of Zionism and Judaism; Dr. Dina Goren, journalist, media researcher, and former member of the governing boards of the Israel Broadcasting Authority and the Second Authority for Radio and Television; Asher Weill, editor of "Ariel" The Israel Review of Arts and Letters and member of the B'nai B'rith World Center Executive Committee

"THE ISRAELI CONNECTION" Phone-in show for Israelis living abroad is expanded

Read about the program in HEBREW