Eichmann on the Air: Radio and the Making of a Historic Trial

42 Listener Shifra Halstoch to Kol Yisrael, 27 April 1961, ISA, Israel Broadcasting Service,
File 4051.
43 Listener Eliyahu Ferbstein to Hausner, 30 April 1961, ISA, Israel Broadcasting Service,
File 4051. Emphasis in the original.
44 Listener Devora Bushinski to Kol Yisrael, 14 April 1961, ISA, Israel Broadcasting
Service, File 4051.
45 ISA files hold 139 letters, 83 of which are from Israelis and the rest from listeners abroad.
46 From Hedva Rotem to Ruth Krumer, 8 August 1961, ISA, Israel Broadcasting Service,
File 4051. The same number is repeated in another letter, sent August 1 1961 to listener
Shoshana Merd. Despite extensive search in ISA files, no transmission logs were found, nor
any evidence of the existence of such logs.
47
Estimate includes the live broadcast of August 9, which is indicated in Hedva Rotem's
letter of the previous day; as well as the broadcasting of at least one session on May 29 1962,
the day <strong>Eichmann</strong>'s appeal was rejected by the High Court of Justice, as indicated in Rogel to
Givton, 30 May 1961, ISA GL/6863/9.
48
Amit Pinchevski and Tamar Liebes, “Severed Voices: Radio and the Mediation of Trauma
in the <strong>Eichmann</strong> Trial” Public Culture 22(2): 265-291.
49
Segev, The Seventh Million, p. 365.
48