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By Naama Barak - January 12, 2022
In 2021, the National Library of Israel’s Arabic-language website enjoyed more than 2 million visits from 1.5 million users worldwide. This was a 125 percent increase compared to the year before.
Some 650,000 users from across the Arab world visited the NLI’s Arabic and English websites, an increase of 40% compared to 2020. Most regional users were young men from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and Saudi Arabia.
The National Library’s trilingual website (Hebrew, Arabic and English) drew some 10 million visits overall last year, the institute noted. Visitors to the site enjoyed world-leading collections of Judaica and “Israeliana,” as well as an extensive Islam and Middle East collection.
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