Avi analyzes the latest wave of attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank and discusses talks between the UAE and Iran – should Israel be concerned?
i24NEWS is an Israeli-based international 24-hour news television channel located in Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv, Israel.[1] It broadcasts in French, English, and Arabic. English channel offers a weekly magazine in Spanish. The channel’s owner is Patrick Drahi, and the CEO is Frank Melloul.
In February 2017, i24NEWS expanded into the North American market and opened bureaus in the United States.[2] The channel has studios in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Paris, New York, Washington and Los Angeles, and deploys correspondents in other locations across the world.[3] In September 2021, following the Abraham Accords, the channel received a broadcasting license from the United Arab Emirates and opened its Gulf bureau in Dubai Media City.[4][5][6] In May 2022, the channel launched its operations in Morocco with two new bureaus in Rabat and Casablanca.[7]
The channel went live on 17 July 2013. Melloul stated that it would battle prejudice and ignorance about Israel with “facts and diversity.”[8][9]
Arab Israeli journalist Lucy Aharish was the lead anchor of the English-language branch of the channel from July 2013 until she left in January 2016.
On 8 December 2016 all programming on the English channel officially ended in preparation for launching in America. The channel broadcast 10 minutes of news on the Hour from 8 am to 11 pm (local time) and replaced “Morning Edition”, “The Daily Beat” and “The Lineup” with a 26-minute news bulletin, repeated at half past.
The launch of i24NEWS in the United States was announced on 27 January 2017. The channel is operated out of its headquarters in Jaffa.
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