Government Reaction
The Voice of Peace was generally tolerated by the Israeli Government, as Abie Nathan was a beloved personality in the country; however officials at the IBA were alarmed at the station's popularity in its first years on the air, and quickly set about devising a state-run pop service, Reshet Gimel, in May 1976.
Nathan was imprisoned on several occasions for violating Israeli laws forbidding contact with enemy states and the PLO.
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