Some 150 newspapers, journals and radio and television networks from 25 countries are represented in Israel by 217 journalists, according to the 1985 edition of the Who is Who directory of the Foreign Press Association in Israel published this week.
The largest group of media outlets represents West Germany, with 45 papers and broadcasting networks, followed by the U.S. with 43, France with 25, Holland with 23 and Great Britain with 17.
Brazil, Japan and Papua-New Guinea are represented by one newspaper each, as are East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
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