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הדרת מוזיקאים חרדים? גלגלצ פסלו ל'פלייליסט' השבועי את השיר החדש 'בצורת' של אביב גפן ואברהם פריד, ודחו זאת לשבוע הבא. מעניין האם רק כשזמר חרדי מגיע לדיון, אוטומטי הוא נפסל? pic.twitter.com/nSzU4ASF6M

— איציק אוחנה (@ok125125) December 23, 2020

Haredi journalist Itzik Ohana tweeted (my translation):

Excluding Haredi singers? Galgalatz invalidated the new song Batzoret from Avraham Fried and Aviv Gefen for this week's playlist, and postponed it until next weeks, when they will discuss including it. Interesting to know if only when it is a Haredi singer that gets to the discussion is automatically invalidated.

It looks' to me like Ohana is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. 

 1. I don't know how Galgalatz decides when to include music in its playlist and when to not include it, but I have definitely heard frum singers on Galgalatz (at least Ishay Ribo and Yonatan Razel, off the top of my head, and probably others as well).

 2. Just the other day Ohana himself reported about Menachem Toker upset about Avraham Fried participating in this song with Aviv Gefen and stating he won't play the song on his shows. Toker later clarified and said he won't play the song on his Kol Hai show, but will play it on his other shows on non-Haredi stations (such as Radio 13, El Al, etc). Even if Galgalatz is not going to play the music, maybe they are taking the lead from Menachem Toker? And maybe they just don't like it? 

 3. And even if,  why is it ok for the Haredi stations to refuse to play the secular music but not ok for the secular stations to refuse to play religious music?

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