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cable. The American show-all,
tell-all media style has changed
news coverage everywhere, in-
cluding in Israel.
Since its inception, Channel
One's anchorman has been Haim
Yavin, a man with the stature
and authority in Israel compa-
rable to Walter Cronkite's in the
United Staes.
During the terror spree, Mr.
Yavin was shaking his head and
tsk-tsking over the footage of out-
of-control Israelis, reported by
correspondents who tried to elic-
it tear-jerking or hair-raising
soundbites out of them.
Echoing the public's feeling of
helplessness, Mr. Yavin, sound-
ing a little out of control himself,
demanded of expert after expert,
"What can we do?" These were
not broadcasts to brace a people
for a war against terror.
Political scientist Shlomo
Avineri, one of the country's lead-
ing intellectuals, went on Chan-
nel One and attacked the media's
performance. He singled out Mr.
Yavin for acting as "a collabora-
tor with Hamas" by amplifying
the people's already overampli-
fied fears and doubts. Mr. Yavin,
Mr. Avineri said, was practicing
"crybabyism" in time of war.
In a Jerusalem Post op-ed
piece, Mr. Avineri wrote: "When
Winston Churchill was promis-
ing the British people 'blood,
sweat and tears,' imagine the im-
pact had TV (which didn't exist
then) gone around asking people,
`How do you feel during night air-
raids?,' Do you fear a German in-
vasion?' or Do your children sleep

at night?' Most assuredly it would
not have been Britain's finest
hour."
In a Ha'aretz op-ed, Mr. Yavin
defended himself and his col-
leagues: "When calamity strikes,
people turn on their televisions.
Immediately. We broadcast the
first footage from the scene over
and over, send out the mobile
units and stay with the events.
The direct, live and uncensored
broadcast allows the people to
give voice to their pain, the lead-

"The Israeli media
have played into
Hamas's hands not
99 percent, but 100
percent."

— Ze ev Schiff

ers to calm down the demon-
strators, the victims to cry out,
the opposition to speak out, and
us, the broadcasters, to express
something of what is in the
hearts of our clients — the pub-
lic at large."
Mr. Yavin and other journal-
ists of the country's popular me-
dia are not "collaborators" with
Hamas; a collaborator acts in-
tentionally, and aiding Hamas is
the last thing the reporters want
to do. But in the hard days that
lay ahead, they might do well to
remember where good intentions
can lead. 0

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undreds of brilliant sci-
entists have no chance, at
least not in the next
decade, to work on secret
state projects, according to
Yediot Aharonot.
While Israel can always use
additional brain power in mili-
tary and national projects, it is
refraining from hiring new im-
migrants from the former Sovi-
et Union because it suspects
that some of them are spies,
Yediot Aharonot reports.
"We hire immigrant scientists
after a tight security filtering
process, but they do not work
in the secret facilities," said
Professor Leah Baum, chief
scientist at the Ministry of Sci-
ence.
Some of these scientists may
get to work on secret projects af-
ter a decade or more of being
watched by the government,
Yediot Aharonot reports.
Needless to say, this irks
many of the new immigrants.
"I wanted, with all of my soul,
to contribute my knowledge to

the state of Israel, and to utilize
my talents in nuclear physics,"
an unnamed 30-year-old scien-
tist told Yediot Aharonot. "I
passed the security tests, which
took months, but I felt they were
making fun of me. Then I got the
answer, 'We're sorry ..."'
Israel should give the immi-
grant scientists a fair chance,
said Prof. Menachem Megidor,
science dean at the Hebrew Uni-
versity in Jerusalem. "It is a dis-
grace not to utilize their talents,
and it only shows that there is
no real immigration absorption
in this country."

Small But Beautiful

Israel is one of the smallest
countries in the world. It is the
size of New Jersey — one of the
smallest states in America.
Yet, every Saturday for more
than 40 years, Ezeria Alon finds
a new travel topic to discuss in
his radio segment, "The Land-
scapes of Our Country," accord-
ing to Maariv.
The 77-year-old self-educat-

