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February 6, 2023

Israel’s Digital Diplomacy Provides an Information Lifeline to Iranian Protestors

Reaching millions of people in 50 languages.

In 2022, the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Farsi-language Instagram account gained 700,000 new followers to reach a total of 1.1 million—over 90 percent of whom appear to be located in Iran itself. The account is part of Jerusalem’s vast digital-diplomacy initiative, which runs social-media accounts in 50 different languages to tell ordinary people around the world about the Jewish state. David Saranga describes these efforts:

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