A demon-haunted country XNUMX: The astrologer is not fired from the Broadcasting Authority, but the academy is closed

Listeners are angry about the sudden interruption of the Academy broadcast in Israel

Here is a petition I received from an educated friend:

On Thursday March 17.3.2005, 10, Benny Handel's show "Academy in a Thousand" came off the airwaves, just like that, in the middle of 17.3.05 series of talks that took place until that day. The program disappeared, and yesterday a short notice appeared on the Israel Broadcasting Authority's website: "The "Academia in the Thousand" series have been dropped from the broadcast schedule at this point for reasons beyond our control, from Thursday XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX onwards." The first sign that "Academia in the Thousand" was dying was a few months ago, when the evening lecture disappeared from the broadcast schedule with the rise of "Heritage Network". There were two lectures left in the morning, between six and seven, and here the harvester fell on them as well.

This program, which Benny Handel has been leading for many years, is one of the pearls left on the radio, all culture, quality and pleasure for connoisseurs. Over the years, my son brought hundreds of creators and researchers from all ends of the spectrum of knowledge and culture to the "Balif Academy", he talked to them with ease, with humor, with inexhaustible knowledge, for the pure enjoyment of his listeners.

I don't know what brought the management of the Israel Broadcasting Authority to cancel Academia Balef, after it failed to kill "The Voice of Music". All in all, it's a marginal hour on the broadcast schedule, it's certainly not an expensive production, and people who consider programs for connoisseurs as cool in their eyes, it's easy for them not to be exposed to it. The Broadcasting Authority has enough programs for them as well.

Please sign and send to Dr. Yitzhak Zaks.
So far, seven Israel Prize grooms have also signed the petition.

Below is the content of the petition

in honor of
Mr. Yosef Barel,
CEO of the Israel Broadcasting Authority,
161 Jaffa St
Jerusalem 91280

In question: the suspension of the broadcast of the program "Academia in the Thousand" edited by Benny Handel

We the HC would like to express our deep disappointment in the discontinuation of the high-quality program "Academy in a Thousand",
which was broadcast for years on network A.

We are very sorry for the retirement of the unique broadcaster Benny Handel and are especially surprised that series that have already been recorded are not being broadcast either. Furthermore: series that began broadcasting and were published in the newspaper and on the Broadcasting Authority's website, were cut off in the middle, without prior notice, explanation, or apology.

"Academia in a Thousand" was in our eyes a gem among the radio programs and played a valuable role in broadening the mind. Such programs should be encouraged. We demand that the decision to stop its broadcast be reconsidered.

Signed _______________________________