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By Shira Efron
Dr. Efron is the director of policy research at the Israel Policy Forum.
A stream of images of starving children in the Gaza Strip have captured the world’s attention, deepening anger over Israel’s actions in the territory and furthering its isolation among nations.
But the narrative is different inside Israel. The story of hunger in Gaza has hardly registered compared with other crises and tragedies: the grinding announcements of the deaths of young Israeli soldiers; the political upheaval over the exemption of ultra-Orthodox Jews from the draft and government’s efforts to fire key democratic and professional gatekeepers; the haunting videos of emaciated young hostages, one forced to dig his own grave on camera, after nearly two years in hellish captivity.
