Eichmann on the Air: Radio and the Making of a Historic Trial

Figure 5: Closed-circle television inside Ha'am; at the center, a
“recording tap” outlet (copyright Israel State Archive).
As the title of Radio's feature article suggests, the belief of
radio executives was that the whole world was listening. The joint
effort of technicians, producers and reporters was 'to fulfill the wish
of thousands and of millions, to be something like "living conduits",
virtually without mediation, to the voices and the sounds—to the
facts of the trial'. 13 Accordingly, Kol Yisrael's mission was to serve
not only Israeli listeners but a worldwide audience by relaying the
event as authentically and faithfully as possible. Nakdimon Rogel,
the head of the Operations Department in Kol Yisrael, is quoted as
commenting on the role of modern media in the making of world
events:
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