Israeli Consulate’s Twitter Presser, Today at 1 PM Eastern

(Prepared to Tweet: David Saranga, Consul for Media and Public Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in New York)

David Saranga, consul for media and public affairs at the Israeli Consulate of New York will answer questions about the conflict with Gaza today from 1 PM to 3 PM on the social networking site Twitter.

In a novel use of the micro-blogging service, Saranga (@israelconsulate) will attempt communicate directly with the public by way of the tag “AskIsrael,”.

At the time of this post, the account follows 890 people, has 968 followers and has posted 20 updates.

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