The Second Broadcast Authority told the management of the Sephardic hareidi-religious radio station Kol Berama on Thursday that it has two weeks to find a solution for getting women on the air, according to the Ice website. The warning came following a complaint by the Lada'at Right to Know organization to the Attorney-General's office, claiming that the authority was helpless in trying to get the station to allow women's voices to be heard, whether as announcers, talk-show guests or as newsmakers. Lada'at had first brought the matter to the authority in December 2010.
Lada'at Chairman Eli Folk told and authority hearing that the lack of women was unacceptable, adding that the station was not private but the winner of a public franchise. He called the station's policy silencing of the hareidi women's public, and allowing it was like saying there was something defective about women to begin with, which can lead to harming and exploiting them. Station representatives say they follow the orders of their rabbis.