From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:40:31 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Israeli authorities censor book, confiscate copies (fwd)
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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]

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	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.
[...]


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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>