The Israeli Educational Television (also known as IETV, Hebrew: הטלוויזיה החינוכית הישראלית, HaTelevizia HaKhinuchít HaIsraelit or just חינוכית - Hinuchit) was a state-owned public terrestrial television network which used to concentrate on producing and broadcasting programs for school children.

However, since the 1980s, IETV began to produce TV magazines and programs aimed at adults and senior citizens.

In those days the Israeli government was reluctant to introduce television transmissions claiming it would lead to cultural decadence.

[1] Levi Eshkol, the Israeli prime minister, pressed a symbolic button to mark the beginning of the transmission.

The station remained an autonomous unit of the Ministry of Education, and broadcast more than 200 hours of programming every week.