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Israel’s first all-sports talk radio is on the air.

Israel Sports Radio, which launched Oct. 4, will feature predominately English-language broadcasts with eight hours of continuous original programming five days a week.

Among the subjects to be covered at www.israel

sportsradio.com are American football, hiking, soccer, basketball, baseball, rugby, cricket and fitness, as well as coverage of sports in America. Professional and amateur sports will be covered.

Israel Sports Radio is the brainchild of Ari Louis and Andy Gershman, the former co-hosts of American Sports Talk on Rusty Mike Radio, an Israeli Internet broadcast in English, and Josh Halickman, founder of the sports blog “The Sports Rabbi.”

The station has interviewed the Sacramento Kings’ Omri Casspi, the first Israeli to play in the NBA, and his teammate Jason Thompson; women’s pro basketball star Shay Doron; and Orthodox Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita, among others.

— jta