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Ministry of Communications (Israel)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ2077979
Source-derived summary

The Ministry of Communications (Hebrew: מִשְׂרָד הַתִּקְשֹׁרֶת, Misrad HaTikshoret) is the Israeli government agency responsible for regulating and overseeing communications infrastructure and services. Its primary role is to manage telecommunications, broadcasting, and postal services. The ministry was established in 1952 and was known as the Ministry of Postal Services (Hebrew: משרד הדואר, Misrad HaDo'ar) until 1970.

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The Communications Minister of Israel (Hebrew: שר התקשורת, Sar HaTikshoret) is the political head of the ministry. There is occasionally a Deputy Minister.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ministry of Communications (Israel)” is in Israel. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ministry, Communications and Israel, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952, 1970—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1952. For this dossier, Ministry, Communications and Israel is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “in Israel” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2077979. The Library of Congress control number is nr93039575. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1952 and 1970.

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This entry incorporates text from Ministry of Communications (Israel)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.