Surveillance

Israel Police issued a seven-day closure order on the hotel as the owner, a 37-year-old Holon resident and father of two, was released to house arrest.

Police had come under fire for allegedly using spyware like NSO's Pegasus against Israeli citizens without authority.

Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit said initial examination did not turn up evidence of systemic misuse of surveillance technologies.

Late last year, Canadian researchers said phones of a senior opposition politician and two prominent government critics were hacked using Israeli Pegasus spyware.

The director-general pushed back on questions that he had not achieved sufficient restoration of monitoring of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

There was a prior Knesset law authorizing Shin Bet tracking of the coronavirus, but it expired this past July.

According to the document, iMessage and WhatsApp provides the FBI access to more data categories than other platforms, including content and history of messages sent and received.

A Joint List veto blocked the Knesset from voting on whether the Shin Bet security service can track people exposed to the COVID-19 Omicron variant.

A close eye will have to be kept on whether the upcoming Knesset law defines criteria and numbers of infections for what a broader outbreak would be.

Will the decision to involve the Shin Bet and IDF in the Israeli-Arab sector become a trendsetter in Bennett's government? What about the precedent set by Netanyahu?