Nevertheless, the strip still had to pass muster with military censors.
Their reports and pictures do not pass through military censors, but they must share their material with other news organizations.
The ministry's military censors then proposed cuts representing about 50 minutes of the 97-minute film.
The action was taken because the newspaper did not submit an article to military censors, the army said.
Israeli military censors delayed the report for about 10 hours.
He had grown tired of trying to write when everything had to pass the military censors.
As an Algerian army officer, he was required to present his manuscripts for approval by military censors.
Elkins wrote the story but Israeli military censors delayed it.
It was often issued with large blank spaces, showing interventions by military censors.
For years the directive's existence has seldom been mentioned in Israeli media and military censors generally did not allow it becoming public knowledge.
