Israel’s cabinet unanimously voted to shut down Army Radio by March, according to the decision approved at Monday’s cabinet meeting. Legal challenges to the move are expected.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said a military-run radio station broadcasting to the general public is highly unusual in democratic countries. Defense Minister Israel Katz said the move is meant to address a democratic “anomaly,” arguing that Army Radio’s political and current-affairs programming draws the military into public discourse and harms the IDF, its soldiers, and internal unity — concerns he said became more acute after October 7.