Israeli radio was designed as state mouthpiece rather than entertainment medium

Evidence

In other lands,” he proclaimed, “radio serves the individual primarily. Among us radio needs to serve (a) the state; (b) the people; (c) the individual.” Guidance in the form of aesthetic education, and not entertainment, was to be radio’s chief function “Above all else,” Soloveitchik added, “radio is the only institution upon which is stamped the seal of the state.” — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 684

Categorization

• QUESTION: The phrase ‘aesthetic education’ echoes state broadcasting doctrines elsewhere; worth comparing with BBC Reithianism and Arab state radio of the same period.
• XREF: Parallels the law-merchant literature on state institutions substituting for informal order, and the Catholic-school social-capital material on institutional identity formation.