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| In 2015, the Zionist Education Ministry started requiring all high school students to take hasbara courses before traveling abroad on school trips.<ref name=":0" /> | | In 2015, the Zionist Education Ministry started requiring all high school students to take hasbara courses before traveling abroad on school trips.<ref name=":0" /> |
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| In 2017, Israel launched their official hasbara app, also known as '''Act.IL''' (also '''Act-IL''')<ref>{{Web citation|author=App Store|title=Act-IL|date=2021-12-01|url=https://apps.apple.com/us/app/act-il/id1141853455|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201165725/https://apps.apple.com/us/app/act-il/id1141853455|archive-date=2021-12-01|retrieved=2021-12-01}}</ref><ref>{{Video citation|url=https://youtu.be/DWD5xiiafBc|channel=Act-IL|title=Upgrade your Israel Activism - Intro to the New Act-IL App|date=2019-03-17}}</ref>. The launch was announced by then-Minister of Strategic Affairs, [[Gilad Erdan]], during an event connected to New York's annual Celebrate Israel parade. The app was developed as part of the 4IL ("For Israel") digital campaign, which aimed to provide tools for pushing back on articles and social media posts critical of Israel and supportive of the boycott movement, targeting boycotts, justifying Israeli oppression, going after human rights groups and activists, promoting Israeli technology and culture, and criticizing Israeli conscientious objectors.<ref name=":3">{{Web citation|author=Natasha Roth-Rowland|newspaper=972Magazine|title=Mission failed: How Israel’s anti-BDS app went belly-up|date=2022-04-25|url=https://www.972mag.com/israel-anti-bds-app/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240426121624/https://www.972mag.com/israel-anti-bds-app/|archive-date=2024-04-26|retrieved=2024-06-11}}</ref> Act.IL was shut down in March 2022<ref>{{Web citation|author=Michael Arria|newspaper=Mondoweiss|title=Israel pulls the plug on its anti-BDS app — ‘a failure from the start’|date=2022-03-11|url=https://mondoweiss.net/2022/03/israel-pulls-the-plug-on-its-anti-bds-app-a-failure-from-the-start/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606174057/https://mondoweiss.net/2022/03/israel-pulls-the-plug-on-its-anti-bds-app-a-failure-from-the-start/|archive-date=2022-03-11|retrieved=2024-06-11}}</ref>, less than a year after the Strategic Affairs Ministry, which led the government's charge against the boycott movement, was folded into the Foreign Ministry.<ref name=":3" />
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| == References == | | == References == |
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