The sociology of language and the sociology of communication are well-established fields in Israeli social sciences. A number of meaningful
books have been published on the history of the Israeli press, though no comprehensive research has focused on the language-choice dimension of the development of Israeli media. Though a few studies of the press in foreign and community languages
such as Russian, Arabic, German, Yiddish, and Ladino have appeared, no systematic comparative research on the non-Hebrew Israeli media has been published so far.