Exclusive: Flickr took Israel out of its Maps!

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IMRA:  You can see for yourself by checking out http://www.flickr.com/map/ and looking at Israel

 

The exclusive story that we are publishing today is bizarre and some might say downright disturbing. flickr – one of the largest social photo hosting services decided to remove the maps of Israel from its site. Despite numerous e-mails and phone calls, Yahoo! – flickr's parent company – refused to comment on the issue. We bring you the full story.

 

Taking Israel off the map

Several weeks ago one of our long time writers, photographer Giora Pinhasi shared with us a bothersome discovery. As a long time user of the flickr photo sharing service he discovered that not too long ago the old maps of Israel (which used to appear on the site, although being relatively old and inaccurate) were removed completely. Only the names of 3 major cities got left – the rest – including cities, towns, villages and streets were all removed leaving practically a blank map of the entire country.

flickr – Israel no longer on the map

Pinhasi decided to contact flickr himself and try and find out if this is simply a technical
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