Iba news

Hasson had always been fiercely loyal to the IBA, was regarded as a top-class investigative reporter, and scored numerous political scoops.

The IBA is to close down at the end of March 2016, at which time a new, more streamlined and cost-efficient public broadcasting service is to be launched.

At Channel 10 she will be hosting what until now has been her rival program, 'Shishi.'

"One of the major flaws of the present legislation is that it threw out the previous clause in the law which laid down the principle that the IBA has to broadcast to the Jewish Diaspora."

As expected, the government was not able to meet its self-imposed deadline of September 30 for closing the old IBA and opening a new authority.

With the demise of IBA TV news in English, anglophones here are deprived of an understandable information service that is essential in the current situation.

The demise of the IBA English News was brought on not as a result of a conscious decision by the political or managerial echelon.

Among the departments most gravely hit by voluntary early retirement of human resources was the IBA English News that lost all of its permanent staff with the exception of two people.

‘We feel like a sinking ship,’ says veteran broadcaster David Ze’ev.

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