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The Israeli National Information Center And Collective Memory Of The Israeli-Arab Conflict, Rafi Nets-Zehngut

Rafi Nets-Zehngut

From the 1960s to 2003 the Israeli Information Center, the main Israeli institution for disseminating information to the Israeli public, put out publications which dealt with the Palestinian refugees of 1948 and the infiltrators of 1949-1956 and disseminated them to the Israeli public. Using content analysis of these publications (made up of books and booklets) and interviews with the Center’s and Agency’s directors from 1961 to 2003, this article explores for the first time the way this Center operated, the way those publications described those two issues over the years, and the processes and reasons that generated this description. By …