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SUCCESS: “Tel Aviv’s Iron Dome” Shot Down in Daily Mail

On February 9, an ISIS rocket attack on Eilat was reported by the Daily Mail’s Mail Online with the following headline: We contacted Mail Online to point out that: The attack was aimed…

Simon Plosker
February 21, 2017
12:00 am

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On February 9, an ISIS rocket attack on Eilat was reported by the Daily Mail’s Mail Online with the following headline:

We contacted Mail Online to point out that:

The attack was aimed at Eilat, which is over 200 miles / 350km from Tel Aviv. It is difficult, therefore, to work out the reference to “Tel Aviv’s Iron Dome defence system.”
And even if this isn’t a geographic reference, then it brings up the question of the status of Tel Aviv, which is not Israel’s capital city. Therefore, it should be Jerusalem’s or Israel’s Iron Dome system, not Tel Aviv’s.

Editors have now amended the headline to refer to the somewhat unwieldy but more accurate “government’s Iron Dome.”

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Tags: capital, Daily Mail, distorted facts, Eilat, Iron Dome, ISIS, Jerusalem, Mail Online, rockets, 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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