"Howard" wrote in message
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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:22:33 +0000 (UTC), "Mike Terry"
wrote:

18 April 2004

This article was in today's Hebrew Newspaper " Yediot Achronot ".

The Voice of Israel's overseas broadcasts on shortwave will cease
in the
near future.

In the framework of the Israel Broadcasting Authorities financial
cuts, it
was decided to relay the broadcasts through the Internet only. This
will
create a saving of both frequencies and transmitters etc, which
will come to
around about 20 million Shekels ( just under $4,500,000 ) a year.

The IBA Internet site relays Israel TV's Channel 1 , Reshet Bet (
Network
2 ), Reshet Daled ( in Arabic ) and foreign news broadcasts.

(Mike Brand)

Kol Israel has been through this several times of late, hopefully
this
is not the one time it will be true.

For those who wish them to remain on the air, send your comments to:
English Department, Israel Radio, PO Box 1082, Jerusalem 91010,
Israel

Their website is: http://www.israelradio.org/english.html

Howard


This certainly doesn't strike me as the greatest time for Israel to
forego the potential public relations benefits of SW--not for that
saving anyway.