Abstract
This chapter examines Australian print media coverage of the death of Australian-Israeli Ben Zygier in Avlon prison, Israel. The case study is of the media coverage, a news story. What happened to Zygier is a critical case within the wider Aliyah project, where living in Israel is promoted to young diaspora Jewish people, and is an individual instance that went tragically wrong. Zygier, a father of two young children, was thirty-four years old when he was found hanged in his cell. His identity was shrouded in secrecy from 2010 to 2013, when the story broke on Foreign Correspondent, the flagship foreign affairs program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC). Until then, Zygier had been identified only as 'Prisoner X'.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Australia and Israel: A Diasporic, Cultural and Political Relationship |
Editors | Shahar Burlar, Dashiel Lawrence |
Place of Publication | U.K. |
Publisher | Sussex Academic Press |
Pages | 140-157 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781845196882 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Australia-Israel relations
- Zygier, Ben, 1976-2010
- media