Israel advances digital literacy project for ultra-Orthodox
Israel’s ministry of trade and industry estimates that many ultra-Orthodox are digitally illiterate, but much of the community avoids the internet by choice.
Israel’s Economy Ministry plans to invest 70 million shekels to promote digital literacy in the ultra-orthodox and Arab sectors, with the goal of connecting these populations to the internet.
The program is supposed to operate in more than 100 local authorities, ultra-orthodox and Arab, with the goal of providing basic internet training for some 100,000 residents at employment-formation centers.
