The Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) provides news programming in 14 foreign languages directed at audiences abroad or in Israel. The goal of these programs is to present a balanced and impartial picture of what happens in Israel in particular and in the region in general. Each language has its own schedule of programs focusing on news, political, social, educational, economic, technological and cultural issues.[1]
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The IBA provides two video programs with news and views from Israel.
The daily IBA News broadcast and the weekly news talk show program IBA Closeup are available on-demand via the IBA World website.[2] Anchors include Yochanan Elrom, Erin Viner, Laura Cornfield and Erielle Reshef. The weekly IBA Close-up program is currently off the air, until further notice. The Chief Editor of IBA News is Steve Leibowitz. IBA News is broadcast on Israel Channel One at 4:50 PM Sunday - Thursday, and Channel 33 Sunday - Thursday at 5:00 PM. Friday and Saturday broadcasts are at 6:00 PM on Channel 33 only.
The IBA News program is rebroadcast on certain Christian broadcasting channels, mostly from LeSEA Broadcasting. This includes METV Middle East Television (Middle East Television). In the USA, the IBA News English language program airs on the satellite channel WHT (Directv channel 367) at 6:00 PM (Eastern time.) The IBA News is also broadcast on the MHZ Networks Worldview channel. The Worldview channel is available on some local broadcast channels, cable networks, Direct TV, audio via telephone, iOS App, Android App and webstream. On MHZ Networks Worldview, the IBA News is broadcast weekdays at 5:00 PM Eastern Time.
The IBA provides daily audio programming with news and views from Israel. The programs may be listened to on the internet live and on-demand via Kol Israel International,[3] IBA World,[4] and Israel Radio International.[5] On-demand audio becomes available about 20 minutes after the end of a live broadcast.[6] IBA audio programming is available in the following languages: English, French, Russian, Mugrabia, Georgian, Amharic, Bucharian, Persian, Romanian, Ladino, Spanish, Yiddish, Tigritian, Hungarian
There are multiple daily programs in certain languages including three programs in English and two in Persian which, along with the French program, are also available via World Radio International (WRN).[7] WRN maintains a daily archive of several months of English, French and Persian programs which may be listened to on-demand.
Weekly audio magazine programs in English titled Weekend Report, Sunday Edition, Culture Report and Face to Face are available on the IBA World website.[8] The IBA World website also provides Hebrew language lessons and an archive of certain historical radio broadcasts.
IBA World [9] also provides text news headlines, local weather in Israel, and foreign exchange rates for the US Dollar, the Euro and British Pound Sterling.