Israel cut off ties with the British Broadcasting Company to protest its broadcast of a program on nonconventional weapons said to be in Israel. The boycott decision was in response to the rebroadcast of a program which Israel claimed was biased and disregarding of the threats the country faces.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.