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Thursday 22 September 2011 - 08:33

"Al Jazeera" NewsNetwork begins broadcasting of its Jewish channel

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"Al Jazeera" NewsNetwork begins broadcasting of its Jewish channel
Islam Times: The channel comes under the name of“Jewish News 1" according to the “Donia Al-Watan” site, and it will broadcast for 24 hours throughout the week. Its own studios in Tel Aviv, Israel, Brussels, and Kiev have already been established, in addition to a number of other offices in Washington, Paris and London; they have not been opened yet.

The channel includes 12 reporters, all of them foreigners, who are now present in 6 different countries, and there is a team to cover the news reports from inside Israel. According to the Israeli newspaper “Yediot Aharonot”, the establishment of the station's offices in Europe and Russia will be completed.

The channel will offer its programs in English; the organizers of the channel will offer programs in seven different languages soon, and it will include Hebrew, French, Italian, Russian and German.

The editor of the channel in Brussels, Alexander Zanzir, said that the channel will provide all that is worthy of publication, and in addition to the regular news, we will provide economic, cultural, and educational programs. Hence the views will find all what they can find on other international channels.

It is expected that the new channel will present all issues of concern to Jews in general and Israelis in particular, for example, Zanzir says: The channel will provide an exclusive television interview with the American Jewish director "Steven Spielberg", who will be in a visit to Belgium next month.

It is to be mentioned that the channel owners are European businessmen Igor Colomwski and Vladimr Rabinovich, president and vice president of the European Jews Union. They have invested 5 million dollars in its foundation. Yesterday, sources said that the channel will enjoy freedom of the media and the press, and will not be linked to any organization or party or religious group.

The director of the channel clarified that if the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or the Minister of State Lieberman Avgedor doany negative steps, we will broadcast them on the channel because we are a news channel, but at the same time we will post positive things.
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