Israel’s Justice Ministry is examining ways to grant a right-wing pirate radio station a license to operate legally. The move regarding Arutz-7 came after members of the nationalist and settler camps protested a police raid on the offices of the station. Meanwhile, Jewish settlers in the Binyamin area of the West Bank began broadcasts for a pirate station they said would become a local community station.
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