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May 24, 2017

Saying Farewell, and Good Riddance, to Israel’s State-Run Television Channel

A remnant of socialist authoritarianism.

The Israel Broadcast Authority (IBA) aired its very last program on Israeli television on May 14, signaling the end of what was, until the 1990s, the Jewish state’s only regular TV channel. Commenting on the significance of its closing, Liel Leibovitz writes:

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