A U.S.-based evangelical broadcaster will be pulled from Israeli airwaves, Israeli regulators announced.
Asher Biton, chairman of the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Council, told GOD TV last week that it had seven days to stop the broadcast of the Shelanu channel.
“The channel appeals to Jews with Christian content,” he wrote. “Its original request,” he said, stated that it was a “station targeting the Christian population.”
Shelanu’s satellite provider, HOT, has also dropped the channel.
Ron Cantor, Shelanu’s Israeli spokesman, said their license in Israel “state unequivocally” that the station would broadcast its content in Hebrew. Most Christians in Israel speak Arabic.
In its original application, Shelanu describes itself as a “Christian religion channel broadcasting Christian content … for the audience of Israeli viewers … [in] Hebrew and English.”
In Biton’s initial approval of the station, he said that “the channel is intended for the Israeli viewing audience.”
Avi Mizachi, a Shelanu board member, said it was “absurd” that the channel was being pulled off the air.
“It is absurd that anti-Israeli and anti-Zionist content is broadcast freely every day on cable television in Israel, and a pro-Israel Zionist channel like ours is under investigation,” he said. “We should be free to broadcast content of our…
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