摘要:Popular music is widely recognized as a cultural form that serves as the major signifier of Israeli identity and the notion of "Israeliness" (Regev and Seroussi 2004), and its depiction by Ehud Manor ¨C the most prolific of Israeli songwriters ¨C of this cultural form resembles the central elements of the dominant Zionist narrative: it is in Hebrew, it represents the "ingathering of the [Jewish] exiles" and it disregards the existence of non-Jews in the civic and cultural sphere. At the same time, as Kobi Lurie notes, its main purveyor is the radio, where it must compete with a large selection of foreign sounds. This study looks at the legal and policy ramifications of government