Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently launched a Twitter account in Arabic.
“Greetings from the holy city of Jerusalem,” he tweeted his followers in Beirut, Baghdad and Cairo. “The aim of this account is to deepen the dialogue with you.”
Israel’s military censor to monitor Facebook, Twitter, and blogs
Israel’s military launched a new system this week to monitor information on the Internet, the chief military censor said on Tuesday.
The military censor said the new system will monitor visual and textual information on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and on blogs and traditional news sites. She explained that the new system will examine information using key words labeled in advance, saying it will now be able to monitor information that was previously difficult to reach. Read more.
