BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

language broadcasts, including English, which will no longer be available
to radio listeners outside Israel after the end of this month. The
broadcasts will continue in Israel on the Reka channel, available on
medium wave and FM, but the shortwave broadcasts will cease, silencing
Israel Radio's English, Amharic, French, Spanish, Yiddish and other
foreign language overseas transmissions for the first time in decades.
Would-be listeners will henceforth only be able to hear the programs via
the Internet.
"It's terribly sad. We're shutting ourselves off from vast, passionate
audiences," one veteran Israel Radio English staffer told The Jerusalem
Post on Thursday. "The whole French Jewish community, the whole Latin
American Spanish-speaking community, Ethiopian Jews - we're cutting them
all off."
In Britain, the Post was told, concerned listeners apprised of the
imminent move protested to the new Israeli ambassador, Ron Prosor, who
said the matter was out of his hands. Menashe Amir, the veteran director
of the Persian broadcasts, hailed the Farsi-language respite as a case of
salvaging victory from the jaws of defeat in the realm of Israeli public
relations. "We could not have afforded another defeat in regards to Iran,"
he said.
The short-wave Persian broadcasts had been going out since 1958, serving
not only as a cultural lifeline to Iran's Jewish community, but as a
credible news source for Iranian Muslims too, said Amir.
"Our broadcasts aim to give information about Israel, and to explain the
Israeli position toward the Palestinian issue and peace process, to the
Iranians, who face vast, poisonous propaganda from the Iranian regime
against Israel," he said. "The broadcasts also constitute great support
and encouragement to the Jews in Iran, strengthening their position in the
Persian community."
IBA spokeswoman Linda Bar said Chairman Moshe Gavish had stepped in with
the funding to save the Persian broadcasts precisely because of that vital
role.
Amir said Israel Radio's Farsi broadcasts were widely regarded in Iran as
a non-biased and accurate counterpoint to the government-controlled news
agencies there. "In [prime minister Yitzhak] Shamir's time," he recalled,
"the IBA went on strike for two months. A joke came about that [Ayatollah]
Khomenei had told Shamir, 'We'll pay the workers' salary demands. Just
bring back Israel Radio in Persian. We want to know what's going on in
Iran!'"
As regards the other languages, Bar noted earlier this week that the IBA
was not mandated to provide shortwave broadcasts under the Broadcasting
Law. For many years, such broadcasts were co-funded by the Foreign
Ministry and the Jewish Agency, which gradually dropped out of the
partnership.
(The Jerusalem_Post Mar 21, by Abe_Selig, via BrDXC-UK)
A-08 Israel Radio on shortwave.
[...] It says that they are seeking funding for Farsi language broadcasts
to remain on shortwave. Probably like this:
9985 1500-1630 ISR 300 90 PERS
11605 1400-1630 ISR 300 90 PERS
13850 1400-1630 ISR 300 90 PERS
15640 1400-1630 ISR 300 90 PERS
17535 1500-1630 ISR 300 90 PERS
ISRAEL Historical moment ! At 1231 UT on March 18th on 15760 kHz Reshet