Channel 2 (Israel)

Channel 2
Country	Israel
Broadcast area	National
Headquarters	Jerusalem
Programming
Language(s)	Hebrew
Picture format	16:9 (576i, SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	The Second Authority for Television and Radio
History
Launched	23 October 1986 (experimental transmissions); 4 November 1993 (official launch)
Closed	1 November 2017 (split into 2 channels)
Replaced by	Keshet 12 Reshet 13; Israeli News Company;
Links
Website	Channel 2
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital	Channel 2
Streaming media
Reshet	Live stream

Channel 2 (Hebrew: ערוץ שתיים, romanized: Arutz Shtaim), also called "The Second Channel" (Hebrew: הערוץ השני, romanized: HaArutz HaSheni) was an Israeli commercial television channel. It started doing experimental broadcasts funded by the television tax. The channel started commercial broadcasting on 4 November 1993 regulated and managed by The Second Authority for Television and Radio. In its first years, the channel was operated by three broadcasters ("Keshet", "Reshet", and "Telad"), and in 2005 only two broadcasters were left while "Telad" stopped broadcasting due to its loss in the Second Authority's auction.

On 31 October 2017, 24 years after the Channel started broadcasting, it got closed and split into two new channels: Keshet 12 and Reshet 13. The News Company that was founded alongside the Channel continued to broadcast news to both of the channels in parallel despite the split, but a few months after, after a merge between Reshet 13 and Arutz 10 channel, Reshet adopted Arutz 10's news company's broadcast, and the News Company started broadcasting exclusively on Keshet 12.