Paper ID: 2405.20269

IsraParlTweet: The Israeli Parliamentary and Twitter Resource

Guy Mor-Lan, Effi Levi, Tamir Sheafer, Shaul R. Shenhav

We introduce IsraParlTweet, a new linked corpus of Hebrew-language parliamentary discussions from the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) between the years 1992-2023 and Twitter posts made by Members of the Knesset between the years 2008-2023, containing a total of 294.5 million Hebrew tokens. In addition to raw text, the corpus contains comprehensive metadata on speakers and Knesset sessions as well as several linguistic annotations. As a result, IsraParlTweet can be used to conduct a wide variety of quantitative and qualitative analyses and provide valuable insights into political discourse in Israel.

Submitted: May 30, 2024