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Screenshot from 'Disregarding Gaza,' by Tamar Glezerman and Arianna LaPenne.

WATCH: Short doc looks for the Palestinians in Israeli elections

Why is Gaza not an issue in Israel’s elections? Filmmakers Tamar Glezerman and Arianna LaPenne speak with +972 bloggers to examine the mainstream media landscape, and its marginalization of the Palestinians, the occupation and the war in Gaza. Shot during Operation Protective Edge, this short documentary follows independent writers and photojournalists as they cover one…

By +972 Magazine March 15, 2015

Employees of the Israeli newspaper Maariv protest against their dismissal inside Azriely commercial center on their way to the IDB offices, Tel Aviv, 20 September 2012. The daily has been sold by debt-strapped IDB Group to publisher Shlomo Ben-Tzvi who also owns the right-wing newspaper Makor Rishon and who agreed to take only 300-400 of Maariv's nearly 2,000 employees. (photo: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

Israeli daily: We let reporter go because he isn’t a Zionist

Did Haggai Matar lose his job at ‘Maariv’ because of his political views, or was it his involvement in the paper’s union that led management to order his dismissal? Israeli daily Maariv filed a statement to the Tel Aviv District Labor Court claiming that the paper chose not to rehire Tel Aviv municipal reporter Haggai…

By Noam Sheizaf June 9, 2013