Kol Yisrael ("The Voice of Israel") is the name of Israel's public domestic and international radio service. Public broadcasting (also known as public service broadcasting or PSB) is the dominant form of broadcasting around the world, where radio, television, and potentially other electronic media outlets receive funding from the public. ... International broadcasting is broadcasting deliberately aimed at a foreign, rather than a domestic, audience. ...

Kol Yisrael began as a domestic service, however, inaugurated upon Israel's independence on May 14, 1948 and was a department of the Ministry of the Interior responsible for both domestic and international broadcasts. Subsuently, responsibility for the service moved to the Office of Posts and Telegraphs and then to the Prime Minister's office. May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... A ministry is a department of a government, led by a minister. ... ŃńŕĹĻļùéÉàí Ó Èä The Prime Minister of Israel (Hebrew: ראש הממשלה, Rosh Hamemshala, lit. ...

The first Kol Yisrael transmission was a live broadcast from Tel Aviv of David Ben-Gurion reading Israel's Declaration of Independence. Tel-Aviv was founded on empty dunes north of the existing city of Jaffa. ... ▶(?) (October 16, 1886 – December 1, 1973; Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן גּוּרִיּוֹן) was the first Prime Minister of Israel. ...

The station inherited the facilities of the former Palestine Broadcasting Service which had been founded as the official broadcaster of the Mandate of Palestine in 1936. Kol Yisrael's staff was made up both of former PBS personnel as well as former staffers at the underground radio stations run by the Haganah. Map of the territory under the British Mandate of Palestine. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The UR logo Underground Resistance (commonly abbreviated to UR) are a musical collective from Detroit, Michigan, in the United States of America. ... Haganah Logo (1940s) The Haganah (Hebrew: The Defense, ×”×”×’× ×”) was a Jewish paramilitary organization in Palestine during the British mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948. ...

Kol Yisrael pioneered the use of FM transmission. In the early years, stations were operated in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa [1]. The PBS had had its transmitter in Ramallah but this was lost to Kol Israel due to Ramallah being in the Arab sector and under Jordanian governance. The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to: Electrical engineering Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications: FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers Science Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length... Jerusalem and the Old City. ... Tel-Aviv was founded on empty dunes north of the existing city of Jaffa. ... For the Lebanese singer, see Haifa Wehbe. ... link titleRamallah (Arabic: ▶ (help· info) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank of approximately 57,000 residents. ...

In March 1950, international broadcasting was begun under the name Kol Zion La Golah ("The Voice of Zion to the Diaspora"). The broadcasts were produced at Kol Yisrael by the World Zionist Organization in cooperation with the Jewish Agency. In 1958, the international service was merged with the domestic broadcaster with both services operating under the Kol Israel name. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The World Zionist Organization, or WZO, was founded as the Zionist Organization, or ZO, on September 3, 1897, at the First Zionist Congress held in Basel, Switzerland. ... The Jewish Agency for Israel also known as The Jewish Agency (or sochnut in Hebrew), was previously called the Jewish Agency for Palestine (during the British Mandate of Palestine) is an Israeli organisation that advocates for Israel and is composed mainly, but not entirely, of Jewish people. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1965, the Israel Broadcasting Authority, an independent public entity, was created and took over responsibility for Kol Yisrael from the Prime Minister's office. In 1973, the IBA adopted the name Shidurei Yisrael (Israel Broadcasting) for the service's domestic radio and television services. The name Kol Yisrael was revived for the domestic and international radio service in 1979. 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Israel Broadcasting Authority (often referred to as the IBA) (Hebrew: רשות השידור, Reshut haShidur) is Israels state broadcasting network. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

A previous station named Kol Yisrael had briefly been operated by the Haganah in 1940 on the 42 metre band. However, the station was soon renamed when the Haganah decided that the Kol Yisrael name should be reseved until independence. Haganah Logo (1940s) The Haganah (Hebrew: The Defense, ×”×”×’× ×”) was a Jewish paramilitary organization in Palestine during the British mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Kol Yisrael's channels include:

• Kol Yisrael Israel Radio International broadcasting internationally in English, French, Persian, Spanish and Russian. The full schedule of Reshet Beit is also broadcast 24 hours a day on shortwave for Hebrew listeners abroad. Much of Reka's schedule is also broadcast internationally.

• Reshet Alef ("Network A") also referred to as Kol Yisrael: General talk and cultural programming, plus news in English at 0700 and 1700
• Reshet Beit ("Network B"): popular radio station.
• Reshet Gimel ("Network C"): radio station devoted for promoting Israeli music.
• Reshet Dalet ("Network D"): radio station in Arabic.
• REQA (Collect immigration radio): radio for immigrants to Israel. Broadcast in 13 languages (mostly Russian). Formerly known as Kol zion la'gola ("Voice of Israel abroad") and Reshet hey ("Network E").
• 88 FM: international pop music.
• Kol ha-musika ("The Sound of Music"): classical music.
• Reshet Moreshet ("the Heritage Network") - religious broadcasting.

Most of Kol Israel's stations are also available worldwide through streaming audio over the Internet (both both live broadcasts as well archived programs are available to listeners). Shortwave radio operates between the frequencies of 3,000 kHz and 30 MHz (30,000 kHz) and came to be referred to as such in the early days of radio because the wavelengths associated with this frequency range were shorter than those commonly in use at that time. ... Modern Israeli music is heavily influenced by its constituents, which include Palestinians (see Palestinian music) and Jewish immigrants (see Jewish music) from more than 120 countries around the world have brought their own musical traditions, making Israel a global melting pot. ... Arabic (; , less formally, ) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Streaming media is just-in-time delivery of multimedia information. ...

External links

• Official site (mostly in Hebrew)