I liked your post about the Israeli blogosphere, but I feel compelled to inform you about a mistake you made in identifying one of your sources.
Dr. Yodan Rofe is a professor of architectere and urban design who specializes in sustainable architecture, that’s his real name, it’s not a nick (Juden Rofeh — clever, but wrong).
He is not religious, but secular. His father, Alexander Rofe was a professor of Biblical Studies at the Hebrew University (where I got a degree many years ago). Might explain how he got his unique name. “Yodan” has Talmudic origins.

Ilana

@Ilana: thanks you so much for the correction. That is what happens when I work too quickly. I wish I could correct the Guardian piece retroactively, but at least your comment will be here for the record. Lisa

but i get your point

So, a question – what proportion of the Hebrew blogs could be considered representative of the “mainstream”? It seems to me that the English-language blogosphere in Israel is inherently limited – i.e. – a greater proportion of national religious/settlers among the Anglo bloggers than in the population as a whole, but then so are the blogs that you mention in your article – much more left-wing in security, social, and economic matters than the population as a whole. Or does this “silent majority” not seem to be very interested in blogging?

@Raeefa: You ask good questions. Unfortunately I don’t know of any studies on Israeli bloggers. But I can tell you that most Israeli bloggers (Hebrew) don’t blog about politics at all. That is an accurate reflection of Israeli society, which, over the past eight years, went from being exhausted by politics to cynical and/or indifferent. Lisa

@lirun: just go over to the English aggregator and count ‘em. There are a couple dozen blogs in English – and only a few are updated regularly. Then go over to notes.co.il. the marker cafe, hahem, blogli, nana blogs and tapuz. There are hundreds. And that doesn’t include the Hebrew blogs on WordPress. Lisa

Cheers for the Hebrew blog coverage…I noticed the paragraph, and I was bobbing my head as I reached that portion. You’re not going to get much clarity from the new olim, fresh of the plane (boat) kind of people. We used to say the same thing about new expats up here.

Does anyone produce some sort of digest of hebrew blogs? (hint, hint?

not to mention some heavily nationalistic russian bloggers who champion israel beitenu all the way..

i think its an incomplete account.

@lirun: You are right: it is an incomplete account. That’s ’cause it’s the first of four articles (see intro). Regarding Anglo bloggers, see the seventh paragraph: “English-language Israeli bloggers tend to be heavily weighted with new immigrants whose political opinions are to the right of the mainstream, so I have taken the following sampling from the Hebrew blogosphere, which is larger and more active.” Lisa