Israel is to have a semi-official news agency which officials say will run on the lines-of-Egypt’s “Middle East News Agency” (MENA) and of other recognized government-guided news agencies that exist in several countries.
To be called “Israel News Service” (INS), the new agency will offer a daily news and analysis service to local correspondents, media-men and news agency bureaus. It will commission top Israeli newsmen to write articles and assessments on major political, economic and social developments and will convey their material by telex to news bureaus to make for fast transmission overseas.
Details of the scheme were revealed today by Information Minister Aharon Yariv, who is in overall charge of INS. Yariv said a “dry run” had begun two weeks ago to iron out operational and technical problems before the service as such starts, hopefully within a month or two.
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