As part of a social media effort to hail the importance of coexistence and tolerance, Israel’s Foreign Ministry earlier this week stole a photograph of a religious Jewish woman and a woman Muslim that was taken to the United States.
The photo was shared on the Foreign Ministry’s Arabic-language Twitter account, with the caption: “On the occasion of the International Day for Tolerance. With an Islamic headscarf and a Jewish head covering, a Muslim and a Jewish woman in a souvenir photo. How beautiful is the coexistence and the spirit of tolerance. “
However, the photo was used without the permission of the Jewish photographer, who is also in it, and without the approval of the Muslim woman in it – and without informing the subjects that their images would be shared by the state of. Israel has nearly half a million followers of the Israel account in Arabic. The photo was also shared by the Facebook page of the Israeli Embassy in Uzbekistan to its nearly 6,000 followers in September.
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The tweet containing the stolen photo was deleted Thursday afternoon after the Times of Israel contacted the Foreign Ministry about this, but remained on the Facebook page of the Israeli Embassy in Uzbekistan at the time of publication.
The photo was taken in St. Charles, Missouri in 2019 by Maharat Rori Picker Neiss, executive director of the St. Louis Jewish Community Relations Council, and posted on his personal Twitter page.
When Picker Neiss saw that her photo had been taken and used without her permission this week, she contacted the local Israeli consulate, but received no response. (The Times of Israel requested and obtained from him permission to use the photograph in question for this article).
A screenshot of a since-deleted tweet featuring a stolen photograph shared by Israel’s Arabic-language Twitter account on November 16, 2021.
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the Times of Israel contacted the Foreign Ministry for comment. A spokesperson said he was looking into the question, but gave no further response.
Under Israeli law, it is illegal to use a photograph or other creative work without permission, with a potential penalty of up to NIS 100,000.
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