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A study of the media coverage of the Yemenite Babies Affair - the story of the alleged kidnapping of hundreds of Yemenite babies from their families upon arrival to Israel in the early 1950s. Examining the role played by the media and by racism, this book is part of a growing trend to expand perspectives within Israeli scholarship.

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Introduction: The Personal, the Political and the Theoretical Official Narratives, New Historians, and the Untold Mizrahi History Israeli Media: History, Ownership and the Politics of Mizrahi Representation Mapping the Media Coverage of the Yemenite Babies Affair Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict Israeli Media and the Articulation of Resistance: Rabbi Meshulam´s Revolt Politics of Difference, Multiculturalism and the Imaginary Community: Future Implications of the Unresolved Yemenite Babies Affair

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Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Suffolk University, USA.

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