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Sep 3, 2017, 4:55 PM
Lessons of the Al Jazeera Affair
The Al Jazeera affair - which reached a finale last week with the Israel Government decision not to revoke the press card of the station's Israel reporter, Elias Karram - had all the prospects to be a watershed in...
Jun 8, 2017, 3:00 PM
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Avner Cohen’s last gasp?
This photo taken on September 8, 2002, shows a partial view of the Dimona nuclear power plant in the southern Israeli Negev desert. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
Revelations of Israel's alleged past readiness to use nuclear weapons are both vexing and useful
Oct 5, 2016, 11:47 AM
Change at the helm of Haaretz’s English edition
When the editor of a newspaper steps down and a replacement made, it does not always draw the attention it should. Whereas reporters with bylines are recognized by readers, this is not the case with the editor. Yet the...
May 26, 2016, 11:22 AM
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Will Glick build the Temple?
The avenues by which the newest Knesset member can create the conditions for greater Jewish access on the Mount
Dec 10, 2015, 7:09 PM
Liberating the Haredi Woman
The Supreme Court decision to allow Kollech, the modern orthodox Jewish feminist group, to sue the Haredi radio station, Radio HaKol BeRama - for a record 104 million shekels -- on the grounds that it has denigrated women by...
Dec 25, 2014, 9:06 PM
Hag Media Sameach?
Religious holidays are a testing time for Israeli journalists.  After all what can journalists - who by nature discuss the present - do about events which happened hundreds and thousands of years ago? Hanuka, for example, is essentially a non-news...
Nov 5, 2014, 11:38 AM
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The Temple Mount: Between Bibi & Moshe Dayan
Netanyahu fails to realize that the deal Moshe Dayan and the Waqf agreed to in '67 is long since irrelevant
Sep 4, 2014, 8:03 PM
Unambiguously ambiguous
Is Israel's nuclear ambiguity something of the past? Signing off from his expose in Haaretz this month, "Obama declassifies top-secret papers on Israel nuclear talks," drawing upon 107 pages detailing US diplomacy in the Sixties regarding Israel's nuclear programme, Amir...
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About Me
Yoel Cohen is Associate Professor, School of Communication, Ariel University, Israel (School Chairman 2009-2011). His research interests include media and religion in Israel and Judaism; religion and news; foreign news reporting; defence and the media. He completed a doctorate in political sociology at City University London. His book publications include God, Jews & the Media: Religion & Israel’s Media (Routledge); Whistleblowers and the Bomb: Vanunu, Israel and Nuclear Secrecy (Pluto) / The Whistleblower of Dimona: Vanunu, Israel & the Bomb, (Holmes & Meier); Media Diplomacy: the Foreign Office in the mass communications age (Frank Cass). His research has appeared in the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics; Gazette; Journal of Media & Religion; Israel Affairs; Review of International Affairs; Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication & Media. He was departmental editor, Israel Media, Encyclopaedia Judaica.