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Balagan, 1. (wooden structure) booth; (for presentations) show-booth; 2. show; (extended meaning) farce, tomfoolery, preposterous piece of buffoonery.
To get rid of Balagan, change the name, I was told, to any name you want.
My guess is that the joker who named the program Balagan was a Russian-speaking immigrant, either to Israel or America, who may well have been aware of the word's currency in modern Hebrew but for whom the meaning remained the Russian one.
According to Wouk's footnote, as quoted by Mr. Horowitz, in modern Hebrew balagan has come to mean mess, foul-up, snafu, fiasco.
The article, datelined Florence, Italy, described a documentary about the legacy of the Holocaust called-- you guessed it-- Balagan.