 Hi friends and subscribers welcome back to my youtube channel my name is Daniel Rosil and this channel focuses on life on the ground in Jerusalem and Israel. Like most other people in the country I've probably spent more time watching the news since the war broke out than I did in several years before that point. For that reason I thought I'd put together this quick guide to some of the main television channels in Israel that are broadcasting news journalism. We'll look today at what I call the big four Hebrew language Israeli channels and then look at the one option that's available in English. Let's start with Arut Tuchadisrei which means channel 11 in English. While the channel designations are assigned for those who still have cable tv subscriptions all of these channels also broadcast online in Israel as live video streams. Arut Tuchadisrei is better known as Kahn which means here in English. Kahn however is actually just a brand name and the official name of the station is the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation or IPBC but that doesn't really roll off the tongue and sounds kind of bureaucratic so Kahn is how the channel brands itself these days. The IPBC was in turn an updated name on the organization's former official name which was the Israel Broadcasting Authority or IBA. The name change happened in 2017 and the Kahn broadcasting brand name was introduced simultaneously. As the official name suggests Kahn is Israel's state broadcaster. Being a state broadcaster brings with it advantages and disadvantages. The major advantage is that Kahn is a well-established and well-regarded media organization within Israel. The disadvantage is that being part of the government it's easy to attack it as being nothing more than a government mouthpiece. From personal observation however I would say that this charge lacks substance. Kahn's coverage frequently includes perspectives that are critical of the sitting government and the prime minister. Even the IDF which enjoys a unique stature in Israeli society isn't immune from its criticism. Kahn once published an expose showing how many IDF bases in the south of the country were inadequately guarded. IPBC is part of the European Broadcasting Union or EBU which is why Israel is able to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2018 Kahn launched a channel which broadcasts in 4k resolution. Its channel assignment domestically is 511. In addition to its main channel Kahn Echadus Ray Kahn has a couple of offshoot channels including an Arabic language channel called Makhan and an educational channel for children called Kahn Educational. Kahn also produces a popular YouTube channel called Kahn Digital which produces its own independent selection of video content. Channel 12 is one of two very similar channels in Israel that are left of center to centrist in terms of their political orientation. I've been asking his radio friends all week what the real substantive differences are between channels 12 and 13. The closest thing I've gotten to in answer so far is that channel 12 is perceived by some as being a bit more to the left than channel 13 but everybody I've spoken to agrees that overall they're pretty close. Channel 12 is also called Keshet in Hebrew which means rainbow and is operated by the Keshet Media Group which also operates the popular Israeli news website mako.co.il. The other major news station in the centrist block is Arut Shaloshis Ray. Arut Shaloshis Ray 13 and Arut Shtemis Ray were both spun out of the same parent entity in 2017 which is the now defunct channel 2. In the six years since the spin-off they haven't really distinguished themselves majorly from channel 12 from an editorial standpoint but they have subsumed another spin-off of channel 2 channel 10 which is now defunct. As you can see trying to keep track of television stations in Israel is a little bit like trying to keep track of political alliances in the Knesset. A channel that's much easier to distinguish in terms of its editorial bend is channel 14. Unlike channel 12 and channel 13, channel 14 has a clear and unapologetic political bend. It's right-leaning and tends to be a favorite among supporters of the current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Channel 14 features a mix of news programming and some religious programming as well. Finally we have i24 news which unlike the traditional stations mentioned above isn't distributed over cable in Israel but rather through online internet streams. i24 news broadcasts three feeds in French, English and Arabic. The station was launched in 2013 and is owned by Patrick Draghi and Israeli billionaire. i24's programming includes a weekly look into security fairs in Israel, a weekly news broadcast in Spanish and hourly live news updates. In addition to the big four and i24 there are other news stations in Israel but these are the news stations that the majority of Israelis tune into to get their news updates. If you want to get more videos from me then please consider liking this video and subscribing to this YouTube channel.