Journal of Media and Communications History in Israel and the Jewish World The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Institute for the Study of Jewish Press and Communications at Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University, P.O.B. 39040 Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel; Tel. 972-3-6408665; Email:
[email protected] http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/bronfman Head of The Institute and Managing Editor of Kesher: Prof. Yosef Gorny Founder of The Institute: Shalom Rosenfeld First Editor of Kesher: Dr. Mordecai Naor No. 38, Spring 2009 CONTENTS Editor Editorial / Yosef Gorny 2e Prof. Gideon Kouts Kesher 38: “Our Story – Their Story” / Gideon Kouts 3e Editorial Board In Memory of Professor Michael Gurevitch (1930-2008), Prof. Yosef Gorny, Prof. Dan Caspi, Member of Kesher’s Advisory Board / Elihu Katz 4e Prof. Eliezer Don-Yihya, Dr. Mordecai Naor, Prof. Yoram Peri, The Muhammad Caricatures in Israel :A Familiar Story but Not Ours Dr. Orly Tsarfaty, / Hillel Nossek 6e Dr. Baruch Leshem, Dr. Uzi Elyada The Limits of Nuclear Confidentiality: Mordechai Vanunu and the Sunday Times / Yoel Cohen 6e Editorial Assistant Daphna Kanner Cohen ”Yellow Press “In Israel ?The Coverage of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Illness in Three Israeli Dailies / Yuval Karniel and Amit Lavie-Dinur 6e Hebrew Copy Editor Back to the (Electronic) Town Square: Influences of the Internet on Herzlia Efrati Israeli Politics pursuant to the 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections Proofreading / Baruch Leshem 7e Herzlia Efrati The Palestine Question in the Soviet Press in the 1920s and 1930s /