ABSTRACT
The public debate in Israel regarding the attitude towards the Armenian Genocide has several times been the focus of the media—especially television. The Israeli Broadcasting Authority monopoly ceased to exist in Israel and after the partial privatization of the electronic mass media, its influence diminished. In 1978, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority decided to produce a documentary film for television about the Armenian community in the Old City of Jerusalem. Representatives of the Armenian community in Israel also related to the fact that the people in question had suffered from a terrible Holocaust. An Armenian Journey is a film that was written, produced, and directed in 1988 by Theodore Bogosian, an Armenian-American journalist, for the Public Broadcasting System in the United States. A significant change, a breakthrough in this respect, was created by senior television correspondent Yaakov Achimeir's reportage in 1994.
