Indeed, a joint report published in late May by Israel’s National Digital Affairs Directorate and the Central Bureau of Statistics points to a significant jump in internet use particularly by the country’s Arabs, Haredi Jews and senior citizens. Specifically, the data shows that between 2014-2020 the Arab community almost totally closed previously existing gaps with the general population in this context. Naturally, there’s still work to do: 65% of native-Arab speakers – as compared with 85% of native-Hebrew speakers – are first exposed to the internet by age 9 (the remaining percentages in both categories mostly receive their first exposure between ages 10-15).