Israel’s answer to Al Jazeera vows to avoid propaganda
Haaretz
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The establishment of i24News was announced in April 2012. The press release spoke of an initiative by Patrick Drahi, the Franco-Jewish businessman who owns the HOT cable company, reporting that he planned to donate money to start a trilingual news channel with an Israeli flavor. It didn’t take long for the word “Al Jazeera” to be mentioned − a reference to the international news station based in Doha, which was established by the emir of Qatar and covers news from an Arab angle (and for that reason was boycotted in Israel in 2008 because of allegedly tendentious coverage).