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Article: 'Jerusalem Post' Internet site a smash hit on Election Day
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- May 23, 1999
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JUDY SIEGEL
Jerusalem Post
05-23-1999
The first live Internet coverage of an Israeli election was a smash hit, as The Jerusalem Post's Internet Edition received five times the usual traffic during a 24-hour period from readers around the world.
The special effort was, "without doubt, the best elections site I ever saw. Everything is very clear, organized and systematized in a comprehensive manner - and objective too. Thank you very much for having brought to your readers a full picture of the Israeli political landscape," wrote Andrei Kobzar of the University of Namur in Belgium.
"Great job with the Web site. With foreign news usually hard to come by in the US, it was nice to log on and ...