THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 6, 1981 23

Israeli TV Show C anceled in L.A.

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LOS ANGELES (JTA) — tional revenues for the sta-
In an unexpected, and pos- tion.
sibly illegal action, the
Tel Aviv TV's pro-
management of UHF gramming, which has al-
Channel 18 cancelled a ready received wide-
one-year contract for air spread viewer acclaim,
time with Tel Aviv TV after was tailored for the Los
only four broadcasts of its Angeles Jewish and Is-
weekly, 2 1/2-hour variety raeli community.
and news show, according to
It provided up-to-date
Tel Aviv TV president Dan news from Israel, Israeli
More.
feature films in English and
The explanation, accord- Hebrew, documentaries,
ing to More, came in a letter Jewish and Israeli cultural
that stated the contract was events, current events in
being cancelled to allow the _the local Jewish-Israeli
station to carry a Spanish community, Hebrew les-
language sports show. More sons, cooking classes, live
quoted the letter as saying, entertainment and sports
"although we feel that your events.
show has great potential,
we are forced to favor the Holocaust Film
overall benefits of this new
sports package for the sta- Subsidy Nixed
tion."
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
More noted that this is West German documentary
not a similar situation to film on the persecution of
the annual cancellation of Jews by the Nazis, which
news shows by the major TV will be screened at this
networks. Tel Aviv TV had year's Berlin Film Festival,.
purchased the air time in was refused film subsidy
question and — unlike net- money by the Berlin Film
work shows — was under no Fund, Variety, the show
obligation to generate addi- business weekly news mag-
azine, reports in its current
NY Police Guard issue.
According to Variety, the
Rabbi from Rivals film,
titled "The Yellow
NEW YORK — More Star" was instead financed
than 100 policemen and a by the subsidy fund in
helicopter provided police Munich. The film so far has
protection Tuesday as the won this year's Bavarian
grand rabbi of the Belz Film Prize.
Hasidic sect arrived in New
Variety said that in
York from Israel for a two- January, a question was
week visit.
raised in the Berlin Senate
Threats have been made as to why subsidy was re-
on the rabbi's life and some fused. The answer, accord-
500 persons identifying ing to the paper, was that
themselves as members- of the film's original title was
the rival Satmar Hasidim "The Jewish Tragedy," that
stoned the Belz synagogue the Berlin subsidies are
Sunday night in the granted principally to fea-
Williamsburg section of ture films as "economically
Brooklyn.
viable" and that the Berlin
The Satmar sect is vio- Film Fund does not feel an
lently anti-Zionist and de- obligation to help finance
nounces the Belz sect's good film research into contem-
relationship with Israel.
porary history.

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