Overview of the Israeli English blogging scene

Posted in blogging | Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 | Trackback

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Next in our tour of the Israeli blogging scene, we will take a look at the types of English blogs emerging from Israel.

Basically, there are 4 types of blogs being published in English in Israel:

  1. Political - there are 7 million people in this country, and 14 million political opinions. Lots of political blogs.
  2. Life in Israel blogs - thanks to the efforts of Nefesh B'Nefesh, there has been a huge influx of English-speaking olim (immigrants) to Israel over the last five years. As a result, there are many blogs being written from the immigrant point of view on what life is like in Israel.
  3. Venture Capital blogs - the Venture Capital Funds were among the first in Israel to appreciate the effectiveness of blogging as a business tool. There are some amazing blogs being written by VC professionals in Israel, and their insights are relevant worldwide.
  4. Tech company blogs - next in line to appreciate blogs for business after the VCs were Israel’s hi-tech companies. Now there are many blogs being published by these companies, and if you want to keep current with upcoming and new releases, they are worth following.

Most of the above blog types are published on a range of platforms, many of course on WordPress. However, one category seems to have almost exclusively preferred one blogging platform: the VC blogs, which are mostly published on TypePad. They obviously don't appreciate the beauty that is WordPress :).

With the hundreds, if not thousands of Israeli blogs out there, it can be hard figuring out where to start. Well, fear not; some energetic individuals have compiled aggregated feeds of Israeli English blogs for easy browsing:

No matter what you are interested in, there’s an Israeli blogger blogging about it. So take a look around…

Miriam Schwab

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