Radio was the central mass medium of early Israeli state-building.

Evidence

There was no controversy about Kol Yisrael’s Persianand Turkish-language broadcasts on the overseas service, and there was some immigrant broadcasting in Turkish, though none in Persian. Thus the paucity of Arabic-language programming for Jews both overseas and within Israel is especially intriguing and suggests a profound discomfort with propinquity between the Arabic language and the new Israelis who spoke it. … In Kol Yisrael, as in early Israeli culture as a whole, Yiddish may indeed have been disparaged in theory, but it was privileged in practice. It was deemed suitable to be a vehicle of nationalization, a vessel through which the Hebrew language and Zionist ideology could be instilled into the new immigrants from the north. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 699 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early Israeli radio explicitly subordinated individual service to state and people.; Israeli radio was designed as state mouthpiece rather than entertainment medium — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 684; Israeli state radio was conceived as an instrument for assimilating immigrants into national citizenship. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 685 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Israeli state radio privileged Yiddish while suppressing Arabic-language programming for Jews #complicates (0.72) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 699