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July 18, 2008 - Forward - US Newspaper

Shahar Golan was interviewed by Nathan Jeffay from The Jewish Daily Forward newspaper for an article about the upcoming visit of Barack Obama to Israel. Unbeknownst to him, Shahar presented the token opposing viewpoint to the general tone of the article which went as far as labelling him ‘an Israeli leftist’. The article featured the Obama graphics Shahar translated to Hebrew.

July 11, 2008 - Haaretz - Israeli Newspaper

Shahar Golan was interviewed by Raphael Ahren from Haaretz newspaper for an article about the 2008 US presidential election and the Obama poster he created in support of the Illinois senator.

September 5, 2007 - Reshet Alef - Israeli Radio

Shahar Golan was invited by Israel’s Channel A radio to be a guest on the program Writing for the Drawer hosted by Rona Gershon for an hour-long one-on-one chat following the recent publishing of his poetry book Almost Finished. You can listen to the recorded interview here:

The Israeli media is reporting an incident that happened yesterday, in which a man stabbed another man to death in an argument over a parking space. All the major media outlets mentioned the parking space in their headlines, in an attempt to give the frivolous killing a reason.

This approach is ubiquitous in the Israeli media and is something I just cannot comprehend: When a son killed his own mother – does it even matter that ‘it was because she did not buy him a computer‘? When a man was killed in a robbery – does it even matter that ‘the robber got away with only 100 Shekels‘?

Is there an amount of money that makes the killing justifiable or understandable in the public’s eye? Do carcasses tease each other six feet under, saying thing like ‘Hey, at least I was killed for a couple thousand bucks’?