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HonestReporting Prompts IBT to Correct Tel Aviv Error

Iranian threats to “level Tel Aviv to the ground” created some confusion at the International Business Times. Clearly Tel Aviv isn’t Israel’s capital as stated in the sub-header. But it wasn’t the only reference that…

Simon Plosker
February 27, 2018
12:00 am

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Iranian threats to “level Tel Aviv to the ground” created some confusion at the International Business Times.

Clearly Tel Aviv isn’t Israel’s capital as stated in the sub-header.

But it wasn’t the only reference that implied Tel Aviv as the capital.

HonestReporting contacted the IBT to point out that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital where its government, parliament, president and supreme court are located.

Cue an amendment to the sub-header.

Except Israel’s biggest city isn’t Tel Aviv! Both by area and population, that status belongs to Jerusalem.

Further contact with the IBT finally brought about the appropriate corrections as the references to Tel Aviv in the story text were replaced with Jerusalem while the sub-header now refers to Tel Aviv correctly as “Israel’s second city.”

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Tags: capital, distorted facts, IBT, International Business Times, Iran, Jerusalem, success, Tel Aviv

Simon Plosker

With over two decades of experience in various non-governmental organizations in the UK and Israel, Simon Plosker returned to HonestReporting in October 2022 as Editorial Director having previously been part of the organization’s management team from 2005 to 2020. Prior to his first spell at HonestReporting, Simon worked in Israel for NGO Monitor, BICOM, and served for a short period in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. He was Managing Editor of the Geneva-based NGO United Nations Watch for two years before moving back to the frontline defending Israel from media bias. Simon has a BSoc.Sc in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics. He immigrated to Israel in 2001 from London.

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