Media In Israel Research Articles

Watching How Others Watch Us: The Israeli Media's Treatment of International Coverage of the Gaza War

This article examines how national broadcast media in Israel reported on the international coverage of the Gaza war. It show how, on the one hand, the national media's treatment of international coverage generated effective estrangement: casting doubt on commonsensical national discourses and encouraging a critical and reflexive reporting. At the same time, the Israeli media's coverage of “how others see us” reinforced attachment: it reproduced consensual and familiar narratives and denied alternative voices. The discussion highlights the significance of journalism during war for cultivating critical distance from national commonsensical narratives, and demonstrates how effective estrangement may be achieved.

On Media and Politics:Between Enlightened Authorityand Social Responsibility

This article challenges the dominant ‘victimizing’ overtones offering a balanced view of the love-hate interaction between politics and media in Israel. The political institution, and politicians in particular, are not helpless 'victims' up against the terrible media. The ongoing broadcast regulation that results in a three-stage process – maturation, implementation, negotiation – may characterize the relations between the two branches of the Israeli democracy. In the stage of maturation, possibly for months and even years, the political and economic circumstances enable the adoption of a medium innovation. In the implementation stage, the actual constaints are revealed, as expected, some of which are predictable and others unforeseen. In the final phase, the stage of negotiation, in light of the aforementioned gaps, bargain is held between the franchisers and the government, usually at the initiative of the former. These relations are analogous with a pendulum swinging between the authoritarian approach, common in various regimes and in societies situated in the midst of a national struggle, and between the social responsibility approach, conventional in Western democracies.

Editorial: After Arafat: Mapping a Jewish/Palestinian Solidarity

It is a striking thought. After so many years, with so many landmarks, detours, about faces, hope, despair, violence, and hints of peace, the political landscape of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict changes. This, at least, is the perception of the media in Israel and America. For most of these commentators, the bulwark against change, the one who could not reconcile himself with an Israeli state and a normal polity for his own people, is no longer with us. Arafat the terrorist is dead. Is this perception the truth, part of the truth, or itself a deception? Was Arafat the problem in the seemingly endless search for peace and justice in the Middle East?

The Red, the White and the Blue

The two waves of immigration to Israel from the former Soviet Union, in the 1970s and the 1990s, have created the largest (over one million people) and most distinct cultural and linguistic ethnic community. Russian-speaking immigrants soon developed their own cultural institutions and attained significant political power. Rising communication needs led to the swift development of Russian media, including radio, television and over one hundred newspapers and periodicals, which fulfill a dual function: preserving one's former identity and ties to the old country while addressing newly created problems of acculturation, thereby reflecting contradictory trends of segregation and integration typical of migrant communities. This article explores the characteristics of the Russian broadcast and print media in Israel during their golden age and analyzes their social and cultural context by relating to two factors: the structural position of the Russian cultural minority as a voluntary `returning Diaspora', and the type of cultural field developed by this type of minority.

Donning the Uniform: The Military and the Media in Israel

Donning the Uniform: The Military and the Media in Israel

The medium and the message: Publishing and the media in Israel

The medium and the message: Publishing and the media in Israel

The Reaction of the Youth in Israel to the Assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a political assassin caused shock, disbelief, and deep grief to the Israeli people. Particularly prominent was the reaction of the youth, who gathered in large crowds, at the site of the murder and in other places, and engaged in various mourning behaviors of a ritual nature. This drew the attention of the media in Israel and around the world. A study of approximately 700 teenagers conducted after the assassination examined their emotional reactions, participation in ritualistic mourning activities, and assessments of the reasons for feeling shocked. In all areas, differences were found as a function of gender, and attitudes toward Rabin's peace policy. An attempt was made to explain the youth's behavior in terms of the formation of groups and group identity.

Ethnic factors in the pathogenesis of chronic otitis media in Israel. A preliminary investigation.

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