---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 17:20:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Israeli authorities censor book, confiscate copies [Shame on the Israeli government. I suspect this would be an interesting case for web-based mirroring. --Declan] --- TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - A Tel Aviv court on Thursday temporarily banned the sale of a book about a missing Israeli submarine after state prosecutors claimed it endangered national security. Hundreds of copies of the book were ordered off bookstore shelves. Author Michael Eldar said police searched his house and confiscated several copies of the book as well as other documents. [...] The case is unusual because the manuscript had been approved, as required of all security-related material, by Israel's military censor. [...] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 11:49:20 0200 From: "Eviather H. Ben-Zedeff" <evi@research.haifa.ac.il> To: declan@well.com Subject: Israeli authorities endangering freedom of the press hi, I am a journalism teacher and an editor in Israel. A friend of mine, Captain Mike Eldar, Israeli Navy (Ret) asked me 18 months ago to edit an autobiography and a book he wrote. During 1997, both books were published and suppressed by the Israeli military. Please, help us to fight brutal censorship in Israel. Support freedom even in this remote part of the Middle East. Eviathar H. Ben-Zedeff Department of Communication Haifa University Mt Carmel, Haifa, Israel <evi@research.haifa.ac.il>