Product Description: In the three years that have passed since Operation Defensive Shield – three years marked by denial, deceit, rage and resentment – one fact remains uncontroversial: never, until the operation, had there been such a wide breach between the Israeli collective consciousness and international public opinion...read more

Product Description: In this nuanced and detailed study of newspaper reporting during the escalation of the second Intifada in the fall of 2000, Daniel Dor shows how real events are subject to distortion and manipulation by the media. In an analysis of the heart of Israel’s media establishment―the newspapers Yediot Ahronot, Ma’ariv, and Ha’aretz―he finds a wide gap between the reality reported by field reporters and the eventual newspaper accounts framed by editors...read more