Covering Israel: A Conversation about Israel and News Media

Featuring Matti Friedman

Israel has long been a subject of fascination for the world, but in recent years the media’s treatment of the Israel-Palestinian conflict in the press often erases background and context and is inflaming global hostility toward Israelis and Jews. How has this media malfunction happened? What does it look like on the ground? And what can be done? Friedman will use his years in the foreign press corps, and the ideas discussed in his essay on the subject, to try to answer those questions and help observers understand the gap between the real country of Israel and the way it is portrayed.

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Minnesota Hillel, 1521 University Avenue SE, Minneapolis

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