Galgalatz
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Galgalatz or GLGLZ (), also rendered in English as "Army Radio on Wheels", is an Israeli radio station, operated by the Israel Defense Forces. It is broadcast on transmitters across the country and features pop and rock music in English and Hebrew along with traffic bulletins and an hourly news report. The station was started in 1993 as a partnership between the IDF, which also runs Army Radio (known as Galatz), and the Ministry of Transport and Road Safety. Its name combines galgal (), Hebrew for "wheel", and Galatz. Galgalatz is highly influential in Israeli pop music; in 2007, Barry Davis o
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- Official website
- glglz.im/glglzofficial
- Motto
- בגלל המוסיקה - גלגל"צ
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- 230000
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- 1993-00-00
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Galgalatz or GLGLZ (), also rendered in English as "Army Radio on Wheels", is an Israeli radio station, operated by the Israel Defense Forces. It is broadcast on transmitters across the country and features pop and rock music in English and Hebrew along with traffic bulletins and an hourly news report. The station was started in 1993 as a partnership between the IDF, which also runs Army Radio (known as Galatz), and the Ministry of Transport and Road Safety. Its name combines galgal (), Hebrew for "wheel", and Galatz. Galgalatz is highly influential in Israeli pop music; in 2007, Barry Davis of The Jerusalem Post called Galgalatz "the country's rock-pop barometer". As of 2024, it had 1.3 million listeners.
==History== Galgalatz began broadcasting on 31 October 1993. It became a 24-hour service in February 1997, when an overnight simulcast of Army Radio was discontinued.