Foreign Ministry Spokesman Yigal Palmor will hold a live internet video conference at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (8:00 p.m. London time) with members of the Facebook group “Gaza Flotilla – the world should know the truth.” Facebook is a social networking site launched in 2004, which currently has more than 400 million active users worldwide.
The pro-Israel group was created Tuesday and already numbers 115,000 members. It has made intensive efforts to disseminate the Israeli point of view on the naval flotilla raid Monday.
The conference is meant to support, encourage and supply accurate information to the pro-Israel activists on Facebook. The group's members have been invited to participate in the web event, where they will raise questions for the spokesman and his team to answer, and hear their suggested talking points on the subject of the flotilla clash.
Palmor will also supply his assessment of Israel's public diplomacy situation.
The Foreign Ministry noted Thursday that the group is the largest one on Facebook dealing with Israel and the Middle East, despite being just two days old. The Foreign Ministry decided to devote time to its activists out of appreciation for their efforts in collecting and sharing information about the incident, and strengthening support for Israel in cyberspace.
The group can be joined at this web address: http://tinyurl.com/pro-israel-group .
The conference can be viewed here: http://switch5.castup.net/frames/mfa_live_archive