Radio Propaganda (2023) [N/A]
Release Date:
May 17, 2023
Original Title:
התזמורת
Alternate Titles:
HaTizmoret
الغرقة الوسيقية
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Kadar Foundation
Ofer Pinhasov Productions
Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project
The New Fund for Cinema and TV (NFCT)
The Van Leer Greenhouse
Yes Docu
Production Countries:
Israel
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 82
They were the propaganda mouthpiece of the new Zionist regime
The film brings for the first time the story of the Israeli radio station Beit Shidir. With the establishment of the State of Israel and the immigration of Jews from Arab countries, the radio station was an active site for producing intelligence and political warfare against Arab countries in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. From the outside, it was a radio station that broadcast news and songs in Arabic, whereas in practice, the broadcasts were used by the administration for propaganda, psychological warfare, changing public opinion in Arab countries, and activating agents through codes implanted within the broadcasts. Soon the broadcasts became the most terrifying threat that agitated the rulers of the Arab world, and the broadcasters in it were named by the competing radio stations ‘The Israel Broadcasting Corporation’s Propaganda Orchestra’.