Alon Gilad
Alon Gilad (also transliterated as Elon Gilad) is an employee of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, according to an article on the Ministry's use of internet 'talkbackers' in the business publication Calcalist:[1]
- Elon Gilad, a worker at the Foreign Ministry who coordinated the activities of the volunteer talkbackers during the war in Gaza and will coordinate the activities of the professional talkbackers in the new project, says that volunteering for talkback in defence of Israel started spontaneously: “Many times people contacted us and asked how they could help to explain Israeli policy. They mainly do it at times like the Gaza operation. People just asked for information, and afterwards we saw that the information was distributed all over the Internet. The Ministry of Absorption also started a project at that time, and they transferred to us hundreds of volunteers who speak foreign languages and who will help to spread the information. That project too mainly spreads information on the Internet.”
- “You can’t win”[2]
Notes
- ↑ Dora Kishinevski, The Foreign Ministry presents: talkbackers in the service of the State, Calcalist, 5 July 2009, translated for Occupation Magazine by George Malent.
- ↑ Dora Kishinevski, The Foreign Ministry presents: talkbackers in the service of the State, Calcalist, 5 July 2009, translated for Occupation Magazine by George Malent.
