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Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi debates in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, December 9, 2024

Coalition MK launches new legislation targeting Kan’s independence

By ELIAV BREUER

MK David Bitan at a committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem. January 15, 2025.

KAN privatization bill will not advance, Economics Committee chairman says

By ELIAV BREUER

Likud MK Moshe Saada speaks at the Knesset. June 25, 2024.

Likud MK: 'If we don’t respect the rule of law, there will be anarchy'

COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER Shlomo Karhi attends a Knesset National Security Committee meeting, last month. He should be congratulated for his persistence and success in taking down a channel that supports Hamas, the writer argues.

Communications Minister Karhi: I will not follow High Court orders

By Yuval Barnea

COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER Shlomo Karhi speaks during a meeting of the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee earlier this month. He argues that public broadcasting is an anomaly in the free market of democratic states, the writer notes.

Individuals leaving Israel should not face criticism

By SUSAN HATTIS ROLEF

PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG and first lady Michal Herzog, with bar and bat mitzvah youngsters who have lost a parent to terrorism.

Grapevine December 19, 2024: Wanted: A constitution

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

TRANSPORTATION MINISTER Miri Regev once stated: 'What is a public broadcaster worht if we cannot control it?'

KAN are not the enemy: Ministers acting against Israel’s democratic character

The Knesset Economic Committee meets at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 18, 2024.

Karhi presents revamped program for partial Kan privatization

By ELIAV BREUER

View of the offices of Israel's public broadcaster KAN in Jerusalem. January 31, 2023.

European Broadcasting chairman: KAN privatization will harm country’s democratic foundations

By ELIAV BREUER

A street advertisement for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 24, 2019

Israel's participation in Eurovision under threat due to KAN's privatization

By ELIAV BREUER

The broadcast offices and studios of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, in Jerusalem January 31, 2023.

A-G's office has 'serious concerns' that the government is silencing Israeli public broadcasting

By ELIAV BREUER

A "Haaretz" newspaper being read in the middle of Times Square.

Gov’t says it is cutting all ties with the ‘Haaretz’ newspaper

By ELIAV BREUER

Illustration of an Israeli post truck. March 6, 2023.

Israel’s postal service to be privatized, communications minister announces

The coalition advanced a bill to enable government control over television rating method (Illustrative).

Coalition advances bill to enable government control over television rating method

By ELIAV BREUER

THE JUSTICES hold a High Court hearing on petitions against the reasonableness standard law, in September.

High Court schedules hearing on establishment of state commission of inquiry into Oct. 7

By BINI ASCHKENASY

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi seeks every legal means to increase state support for Channel 14, without any constraints on some of its more disturbing content, the writer complains.

Communications Ministry allows new use of cell infrastructure, seeking increased competition

Equipment seized in Al Jazeera office in Nazareth

Israeli forces storm Al Jazeera bureau in West Bank with closure order

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi seeks every legal means to increase state support for Channel 14, without any constraints on some of its more disturbing content, the writer complains.

Knesset passes controversial television bill, closes plenum until October 28

By ELIAV BREUER