Israel's most popular radio program of all time 'Three Men in a Boat' achieves its highest audience. In 1968 the law is amended to include television transmission. Overseas broadcasts of Kol Israel are secured under a legal provision that there must be programming beamed abroad to Jews and others. The original1936 transmitter had been removed and scrapped by the Jordanians prior to 1967 and a new 100 kW Telefunken transmitter donated by the Federal German Republic was in the process of being installed when the war started. Israel Television is inaugurated by the IBA on Independence Day with the televising of a parade through the streets of Jerusalem.
Radio now has a rival medium.
In fact TV sets went on the market in around 1960 when signals from Cyprus, Lebanon and Egypt could be picked up. The shortwave facilities of Kol Israel are greatly upgraded by the purchase of four 300 kilowatt transmitters and several antennas directed at different parts of the world. 1972 July 26. Israel is connected to the world by satellite for TV and radio broadcasts by the opening of the Emek Ha'ela Telecommunications station. Offshore pirate radio station the Voice of Peace is opened by peace campaigner Abie Nathan and achieves enormous popularity.