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The Hebrew Dub of the Dragon Ball Franchise is produced by Dubby-Dub Studios and began with working on Dragon Ball Z in mid 2002. The show itself aired on September of 2002.

History

The Hebrew Dub was recorded for the Israeli "Kids' Channel" for the 4 PM time slot and covered the first 52 episodes of Dragon Ball Z as "season 1", it ended with "The Past and Future" and was syndicated all the previous 52 episodes while the dubbing of the "second season" which ended with episode 105 in late March of 2003 took place.

The show was putted on hold for the next 10 months and resumed airing in January 2004 with a new voice actor for Gohan, this run of the show covered everything from episode 106 till the end of the Cell Games Saga at late July 2004 as "Season 3".

While it was airing the Hebrew Dub for the remainder of the Dragon Ball Z series took place, and ended with the Peaceful World Saga at early December 2004. The ending of the series was given a special treatment by the "Kids' Channel" which held a special broadcasting of the show's 2 last episodes in a row with the anchors dressed as Super Saiyan Goku and Kid Buu for the event and held a meeting of the crowd with some of the voice actors and director, and ended with the announcement of Dragon Ball GT was already being dubbed by that time and that it was about to begin airing in the next month to come.

In January 2005 Dragon Ball GT aired in Israel and lasted till March of 2005. It then was syndicated from start to bottom till the end of the school year in June.

In July of 2005 the "Kids' Channel" had announced that all the Original Dragon Ball (which wasn't dubbed because of it's sexual and inappropriate humor) and Dragon Ball Z movies and specials to date were being dubbed and will air on a weekly basis in Thursday mornings at 9 AM in the summer time, and in a re-run at 4 PM of that same day. All movies and specials aired by November 2005. In the next month to come the Dragon Ball & DBZ movies and specials ran in re-runs from first to last in the same weekly basis till February of 2006.

In July 2007 Dragon Ball Z was re-airing with 2 episodes per day at 6 PM each night of the summer.

In March of 2016 Dragon Ball Super was purchased by Dubby-Dub (the second non-Japanese dub to be announced) and was already in working and that a deal was signed with Nickelodeon Israel. The show premiered on August 31th, 2016. The only episode to be left out of the dubbing was episode 89 in which Master Roshi's sexual misbehavior seemed as "inappropriate, uneducational and unworthy of screen-time" by the Israelis. Many of the original voice actors returned to dub the new show, mainly on the main cast, while secondary cast members who took a leave were replaced with new ones.

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