Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Reuters relocates capital of Israel

On AlertNet, "the world's humanitarian news site", Reuters provides news along with free and unfettered story publication rights for hundreds of NGOs, many of which are partisan and heavily politicized.  Today, we noticed that the Reuters AlertNet website has recently undergone a face-lift and on the profile page for Israel, we learn that the capital of the country is... wait for it... Tel Aviv.

Related country profile

Israel  
Capital:Tel Aviv
Currency:Shekel (ILS)
Time zone:GMT +2

Of course, Israel's capital city is not Tel Aviv, but Jerusalem.

Perhaps Reuters Jerusalem Bureau is actually in Tel Aviv as well.

UPDATE DECEMBER 16, 2010: Reuters has had a sudden change in heart and Israel's capital is now indicated as "in dispute".

Word has it that Reuters considers Israel's existence as falling into the same category.
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  1. AnonymousDecember 16, 2010 at 7:54 AM

    In the meantime, Reuters has removed Tel Aviv as teh capital of Israel. It is now the only country ,as far as I can tell, that does not have a capital at all!

    The "Palestinian Territories", which qualify as a 'country", do have a capital- East Jerusalem.

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