Digitizing History: Palestine Broadcasting Service, 1936-1948

Physical Fitness Programs

GYMNASTICS

On Sunday, December 16, 1945, a daily 20-minute physical fitness morning program (7:05 AM to 7:25 AM) was started up in Hebrew. It was presented by Michael Ben-Hanan. Simultaneously, a five-minute physical exercise program was started in English on the same morning (7:55 AM to 8:00 AM). It was realized that the listening public may not totally understand what they were supposed to do by way of the exercises so Hagalgal published little drawings of the exercises each week to either remind people what they had learned in school or teach the listeners new exercises.

drawing of exercise no.1 drawing of exercise no.2 drawing of exercise no.3
drawing of exercise no4 drawing of exercise no.5 portrait of Michael Ben_Hanan (Zemel)
Michael Ben-Hanan (Zemel)