Israeli Educational Television

The Israeli Educational Television (also known as IETV, Hebrew: הטלוויזיה החינוכית הישראלית‎, HaŦelevizia 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. It bought the Israeli broadcasting rights for Thomas & Friends from the Hop! channel sometime after 2004 and aired the eighth to fourteenth series until 2012, after which the show was transferred back to Hop!.

Following a reform in public broadcasting initiated by the government and approved by the Knesset in the summer of 2014, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority was replaced in 2017 by the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (aka KAN).

On 14 August 2018, the Educational Network was shut down and has been replaced by a new children and youth channel Kan Educational, a part of the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation.