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reporters, editors, producers, news broadcasters, music broadcasters, musical editors, announcers, etc. Following the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the station began broadcasting 24 hours a day, expanding its broadcasts to include news broadcasts and current affairs programming. For years, it was the only
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columnist and theater critic, Galei Zahal had a "far-reaching positive influence on
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right wing movement launched on June 21, 2011, a campaign against the station claiming that it was operating against IDF soldiers and out of extreme left wing political agenda. On June 26 more than 100 reserve soldiers demonstrated against the station calling to privatize it or balancing its
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to maintain a military station that deals with civil disputes, what is more, the number of standards of soldiers and permanent personnel at this station is very large". In the same year, the head of the
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investigation titled "One Man's
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