The World's Window on Israel: A "Jewish Al Jazeera" Being Planned at Last

Last June, in my very first blogpost, I stressed the long overdue and urgent need for Israel to establish a satellite television channel of its own, and warned of the baleful effects of failing to do so in a world that receives so much of its information about Israel from biased and even hateful sources.  http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2010/06/israel-needs-satellite-english-language.html

Now, it looks as if that long-overdue but vital necessity will be realised. It's reported in the Jerusalem Post that USSR-born Israeli billionaire and philanthropist Alexander Mashevich plans to establish a "Jewish Al Jazeera," a pro-Israel news channel that will "represent Israel on an international level, with real information".

Observed Mr Mashevich at the Keren Hayesod-United Israel Appeal conference in Washington DC:

"Every day and every hour people get negative information about Israel.  Therefore, the most important thing is to represent Israel on an international level, with real information....

I think this idea should be implemented. I already spoke about it several years ago with Israeli government officials and with influential people in the Jewish world, and everyone agrees that such a channel is necessary," he said.

See more: http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=215498

Let us fervently hope that the idea meets no setbacks and speedily comes to fruition.  The monetary expense is enormous, but the penalty for failing to establish such a station is more enormous still.