Editing Telecommunications in Israel (section)

==Present==
===Press===
{{Main|List of newspapers in Israel}}
Israel has three main commercial daily newspapers: ''[[Yedioth Ahronoth]]'', ''[[Maariv (newspaper)|Maariv]]'' and ''[[Haaretz]]''. Additionally, there are also two large [[free daily newspaper]]s: ''[[Israel Hayom]]'' and ''[[Israel Post]]'' (belongs to ''The Jerusalem Post''). Other major newspapers include the Russian-language ''[[Vesti (Israeli newspaper)|Vesti]]'', the English-language ''The Jerusalem Post'', etc.

===Mail===
The mail field in Israel treads towards competition. The Mail Authority became the [[Israel Postal Company]]. Gradually, the government-owned postal company enabled additional companies to enter the market of postal deliveries of mail with a weight up to half a kilogram; this was done so that they could compete with the governmental mail company, allowing the postage rates to drop.

===Radio===
{{Main article|List of radio stations in Israel}}

In contrast with the state which exists in the television field, in the radio field, the [[Israel Broadcasting Authority]] is allowed to produce earnings from advertising. The radio section of the Israel Broadcasting Authority is called [[Kol Yisrael]] ("Voice Of Israel").

[[Reshet Bet]] is the leading radio station in Israel. Two additional radio stations belong to the [[Israel Defense Forces|Israeli defense forces]]: Israel Defense Forces Radio and [[Galgalatz]]. In addition to the main radio stations which could be received throughout the country, there are also regional commercial radio stations broadcasting under the auspices of [[the Second Authority for Television and Radio]]. There is a severe problem in Israel with [[Pirate radio|pirated radio stations]].

===Landline telephony===
[[File:Pay phone haifa 20080109.jpg|thumb|Payphone in [[Haifa]]]]
[[File:Geographic_area_codes_of_Israel.jpg|thumb|Geographic area codes of Israel]]

As of 2020, [[Bezeq]], [[Hot (Israel)|HOT]], [[Partner Communications Company|Partner]] and [[Cellcom (Israel)|Cellcom]] offer landline telephony services. Bezeq offers traditional services, while the others offer [[Voice over IP]], with Hot's service being routed through an intranet.

In 2020, Bezeq had 9,500 [[payphones]] throughout the country. In December of the same year, they received permission from the government to dismantle the vast majority of these phones, leaving only those in active use and those within closed spaces, e.g. prisons, where other choices are not available.<ref name="ynet-bezeq-payphone">{{cite news|url=https://www.ynet.co.il/economy/article/HygVB1s6D|title=בזק תסיר את רוב הטלפונים הציבוריים|trans-title=Bezeq Will Remove Most Public Telephones|author=Kristal, Meirav|work=[[Ynet]]|date=31 December 2020|access-date=31 December 2020|language=he}}</ref>

===International calls===
As of October 2016, eight operators, 012 – [[012 Smile]], 013 – [[013 NetVision]], 014 – [[Bezeq International]], 015 – Hallo 015, 016 – [[Golan Telecom]], 017 – [[Hot Mobile]], 018 – Exphone and 019 – 019 Telzar provide international telephony: All the companies offer membership services which usually offer their customers cheaper rates. Membership might include some benefits such as billing, and dialing the default 00 prefix instead of the need to dial the specific prefix of the company (as it was done in the past, when Bezeq had a monopoly in this field). Because these companies have an extensive infrastructure of links abroad, the majority of them also provide internet services. Incoming calls are distributed through the companies relative to market share.

===Cellular communication===
As of January 2020, There are six major network operators in Israel which offer cellular communication service: [[Pelephone]], [[Cellcom (Israel)|Cellcom]], [[Partner Communications Company|Partner]], [[Hot Mobile]], [[Golan Telecom]] and [[XFONE|we4G]].{{fact|date=September 2021}}

In addition, there are several [[Mobile virtual network operator|MVNOs]]: [[Rami Levy Communications|Rami Levy]], Home Cellular, 019 Telzar and Cellact. The services which these companies provide long ago passed the boundaries of voice conversations and currently provide also SMS Text messaging, [[Videoconferencing]] and [[Broadband Internet access]].{{fact|date=September 2021}}

===Television===
[[Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Council]] is a governing-body whose purpose is to facilitate and regulate the commercially operated television broadcasts in Israel. There are two companies in the market of multichannel television: [[Hot (Israel)|HOT]] (which provides television services through an underground infrastructure of cables) and [[yes (Israel)|yes]] (which provides television services through satellite transmissions). The cable company has an advantage over the satellite company due to a permit granted to it from the communication office, which enables it to provide full bidirectional communications (for example the ability to provide [[video on demand]] services).{{fact|date=September 2021}}

There are two commercial channels on Israeli television: [[Channel 2 (Israel)|Channel 2]] and [[Channel 10 (Israel)|Channel 10]]. There also exist several niche channels which make their earnings from TV advertisements, such as: [[Israel Plus]], [[Music 24]], [[Channel 20 (Israel)|Channel 20]] and the Israeli shopping channel. Additionally, [[Channel 1 (Israel)|Channel 1]], which belongs to the [[Israel Broadcasting Authority]], finance itself partially with the help of limited sponsorship announcements, although most of its budget comes from the license fees which every household in Israel, with a television and a digital receiver set, pays annually.{{fact|date=September 2021}}

===Internet===
{{Main|Internet in Israel}}

The Internet companies market is divided into two categories: infrastructure providers and service providers. The infrastructure providers are [[Bezeq]] and [[Hot (Israel)|Hot]]. A third company Unlimited is building an internet-over-powerline infrastructure. As of October 2016, the largest Internet service providers are [[Bezeq International]] and [[Hot (Israel)|Hot]], in addition to 50 smaller companies.{{fact|date=September 2021}}

===International connections===
Three companies operate [[fiber optic]] [[submarine communications cable]]s connecting Israel and Europe:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Operator !! System name !! Year operational !! Total design capacity !! Landing points
|-
|rowspan="2"| [[Telecom Italia]] || [[MedNautilus]] || align="center" |2002|| align="right" | 3.84[[Terabit|Tb]]/[[second|s]] ||
* Italy
* Greece
* Turkey
* Israel
* Cyprus
|-
|| [[LEV (cable system)|LEV]] || align="center" | 1998 ||align="right" |  20[[Gigabit|Gb]]/s ||
* Italy
* Cyprus
* Israel
|-
| Bezeq International || [[Bezeq International Optical System (cable system)|JONAH]]|| align="center" | 2012 ||align="right" |  7.2Tbit/s||
* Italy
* Israel
|-
| [[Tamares Group|Tamares Telecom]] || Tamares Cable || align="center" | 2012 ||align="right" |  42Tbit/s ||
* France
* Cyprus
* Israel
|}