Serviciul secret din Israel, Shin Bet, şi-a lansat propriul 'blog', redactat de 4 agenţi. Aceştia explică publicului cum au fost recrutaţi să lucreze în cadrul serviciilor secrete, precum şi care sunt atribuţiile lor. Ei răspund de asemenea întrebărilor trimise de către public. O relatare de Tim Franks:

Ascultaţi povestea

The tone is chatty, at times even facetious. The agents from Israel's internal security service, the Shin Bet, are shown in silhouette.

Agent Chet is the sole woman among them. She works in high-tech. She says she went to the agency because it offered her a better work-life balance than her previous job in the private sector. There are parts of her job, she says, which she can't discuss even with her husband,but there again, at home, they don't much like talking about work.

Agent Aleph, dubbed 'the expert' on the blog, attempts to debunk a few myths. "We don't work in a basement," he says. "We don't spend the day wearing earpieces. And we don't get to have flashing blue lights for our cars. We have to sit in traffic jams like everyone else."

The blogs are intended to draw members of the public into other areas of the Shin Bet website, in particular the recruitment section. A Shin Bet official told the BBC that the idea was to inform the public that the agency offers work beyond just stopping Palestinian paramilitary attacks. The official said that the agency had been cheered by the feedback from members of the Israeli public, keen to find out more about the jobs within Shin Bet, the pay and even the food.

Ascultaţi cuvintele

chatty
vorbăreţ şi deschis

facetious
cineva care încearcă să facă haz de anumite subiecte pe care majoritatea oamenilor le consideră serioase

in silhouette
în profil, cu faţa umbrită

sole
unic

work-life balance
echilibrul dintre muncă şi viaţă - o expresie care se referă la cineva care îşi petrece suficient timp cu familia, sau prietenii, acasă, facând ceea ce îi place şi are şi o carieră satisfăcătoare (în loc să-şi petreacă tot timpul la birou şi să nu aibă nici un fel de viaţă socială)

the private sector
sectorul privat (faţă de sectorul de stat în care toate întreprinderile sunt deţinute de către guvern)

dubbed
numit, intitulat sau poreclit

to debunk a few myths
a spune adevărul despre anumite lucruri pe care oamenii le consideră adevărate. dar care sunt de fapt false; a demonta unele mituri

the recruitment section
secţiunea dintr-un ziar în care sunt publicate anunţurile de locuri de muncă

beyond just
nu doar, mai mult de