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Ortov's Young Explainers Program is a program to promote and create correct and authentic advocacy of the Israeli state and society by a youth leadership group. As part of the program, the youth take responsibility throughout the year and influence the creation of positive opinions, based on knowledge, on various target audiences around the world. The program was launched 18 years ago with the aim of opening direct channels of communication between youth in Israel and youth around the world and promoting two important issues: one – promoting Israel's image in the world, and the second – combating antisemitic phenomena in general and social networks in particular.

As soon as the campaign and the war began, the Ortov team, accompanied by the program coordinators, promoted a school and network information system in order to explain the Swords of Iron War, led by the network's teachers and students. The purpose of the activity is to regulate the transmission of messages between Israel and the world.

The students in the war room work on creating informational materials in various languages – videos, posters, and information – intended for their peers around the world and explain to youth from abroad the situation of the war.

Liane Zohar, an ORT Dafna Kiryat Bialik high school student who has been in the information room of the ORT network "Young Explainers" for the past four years, says: "I am part of the program and have been involved in hasbara for four years, actually since I arrived at school. As far as I'm concerned, as soon as the war began, I understood that this is the Order 8 of our generation, which still can't enlist. All of us here understand the importance of hasbara and understand that influencing youth around the world is significant because it affects parents, their friends at school, and even in the future how they perceive Israel."