Posts Tagged ‘Israel’

Israeli couple Lior and Vardit Adler have jumped on the Facebook-inspired baby names bandwagon, naming their baby Like.

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This morning Facebook turned on Places in a number of new locales, including Bulgaria, Brazil, India, Egypt, South Africa, the Philippines and Israel.

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Israeli sympathizers are asking Facebook to pull a page calling for a third intifada against Israel beginning this May 5.

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The Israeli army is monitoring the Facebook profiles of female citizens in order to identify those who have falsely espoused religious beliefs in order to avoid conscription.

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In this world there are few things more contentious than the Israel-Palestine issue. But whatever you think of the rights and wrongs of the geopolitical situation in the Middle East, surely we can all agree it’s wrong for any soldier anywhere in the world to mock the prisoners she holds captive? Talk about human fail.
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Yesterday I was reading tweets from friends in Israel who were mentioning a live streaming setup similar to the one CNN had during the inauguration. Today, Orli Yakuel posted a screenshot to Flickr of the event. This is the second time that Facebook has integrated a streaming news feed for coverage of an event. This year’s election in Israel is a historic one with all of the buzz surrounding the recent Gaza conflict and other regional political tension.
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When the Gaza war started last week, both Israeli supporters and Gaza supporters instantly became part of the social media war. Whether it was through Twitter accounts dedicated to complete coverage of the events, blogs set up for non-stop coverage, or people simply updating their Facebook status or profile picture, the social media war was in full swing. Yesterday Dan Peguine (developer of Honesty Box) and Arik Fraimovich, launched QassamCount, an application that automatically updates users’ Facebook statuses with updates about the most recent Qassam rockets that have fallen in Israel.
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