Though Lag BaOmer holiday (May 23) was to have marked the start of broadcasts for RadiYosh - a regional radio station for Judea and Samaria - a suit brought by the ultra-left-wing Gush Shalom (Peace Bloc) has placed the future of the station in grave doubt.
Ever since October 2003, when Arutz Sheva Radio was closed down (though it never stopped broadcasting over the internet), residents of Judea and Samaria and their supporters have not had a voice on the Israel airwaves. This situation was to be reversed within two months, following the selection by the Second Channel Authority of a group to run a new regional radio station. The station was to be called RadiYosh; Yosh is a Hebrew acronym for Judea and Samaria.
Second Channel Authority: Gush Shalom has no interest other than to hurt others with whom it disagrees politically. 
Some broadcasters from Arutz Sheva radio are a part of the new initiative.
However, Gush Shalom, seeking to prevent any improvement to Jewish quality of life in Judea and Samaria, appears to have found the way to stop the new radio station. It brought a suit to the Supreme Court claiming that Judea and Samaria, still under the control of the Civil Administration, is not in the purview of the Second Channel Authority. Therefore, Gush Shalom claims, the station is illegal and may not broadcast.
The State has not responded to the claim, the case is limping along slowly - a court case scheduled for last week was canceled - and the bottom line is that there is no regional radio station for Judea and Samaria.
The Second Channel Authority maintains that the court suit is simply a "political ploy by a group that wishes to end Israeli control over Judea and Samaria... Gush Shalom [has no concern] for the some 300,000 Israeli citizens who live there, and therefore worked very hard to find technicalities on which to disqualify the approval procedure. Gush Shalom has no interest other than to hurt others with whom it disagrees politically."