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PM Candidates In Israel Will Face YouTube Questions

Israel's next prime minister is supposed to be elected on February 10th, and recent events have served as a clear reminder of this position's importance.  It's rather impressive, then, that YouTube users have been asked to submit questions for the candidates to answer.

Israel, Palestine Take PR War To Web

On the ground, it’s bombs, bullets and blood. On the Web, it’s a war of ideas. As Al Jazeera, via Twitter, stokes sympathies and outrage over Israeli force, the Israeli government fires back with information campaigns of its own on Facebook and YouTube.

Israeli Military Putting Gaza Clips On YouTube

Israel is well known for both developing and buying some of the most advanced military tech in existence.  Now, arms of the nation's government have begun using two of the tech community's favorite social media sites in order to explain and defend its recent actions.

Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Online

The Israel Antiquities Authority is working on taking digital photos of the Dead Sea Scrolls in order to make the 2,000- year -old documents available to the public online.

Social Networking Lands Israeli Soldier In Jail

An Israeli soldier will be spending 19 days in jail for uploading a photograph taken on his military base to Facebook.The Israeli military will not comment on the content of the image but said the soldier was serving in an elite intelligence unit. The Israeli press is reporting that it is the first case where a soldier has been reprimanded for using a social networking site.

Facebook At Center Of Mid East Conflict

Facebook has angered Jewish settlers by listing them as residents of "Palestine", forcing the social networking site to allow users to change themselves back to Israel.Facebook users living in Maale Adumim, Ariel and other Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank protested when the site automatically listed their hometowns as being in "Palestine." Settlers have accused Facebook of having a political agenda.

Google Israel Compelled to Expose Blogger

Slav Ben Ari sends in this news bit from his blog – I cannot read Hebrew and can’t confirm this info:

Israeli Journalists Insult Dutch Via Translation

Online translation tools have their uses, but substituting for an actual translation service when sending diplomatic messages across international borders shouldn't be one of them.

Google Earth Turns Unwelcome Eye Towards Israel

We’ve seen this sort of thing before: people complaining that Google Earth has exposed military secrets or put certain structures at risk.  Yet of all the nations in the world, Israel may have the most right to worry, and it’s this country that the latest update affected.

Google Shows Support For Missing Soldiers

Google Israel made an interesting gesture today on its home page: it posted (in Hebrew) the phrase “thy children shall come again to their own border,” which refers to two kidnapped Israeli soldiers.  Some have called this “moving,” and it’s definitely unusual.