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Weather App Divides Jerusalem

But which side has better weather?

by
Marc Tracy
June 15, 2010
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Earlier this month, Mideast iPhone users checking the device’s weather application found that Jerusalem had been divided into … you guessed it: West Jerusalem and East Jerusalem. Ditto visitors to Yahoo!’s weather page.

The American Israeli Action Coalition drew the long straw and duly issued a press release condemning the “blunder” (which “bites Yahoo! and Apple to their Cores”). By Sunday, Jerusalem was reunited.

What’s weird is that Facebook allowed Golan residents to say they were Israeli nine months ago, and still no peace deal with Syria!

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.