NOTE: I have compiled here the most comprehensive coverage of Israel's response to the Coronavirus epidemic in terms of cyber-tools being used and their impact on human rights. A full list of my related posts is here. Please read and disseminate on social media platforms. Israel's interim defense minister, Naftali Bennett, has released a ministry plan for … [Read more...]
Israel’s Secret Police Maintain Massive Database on All Citizens with Little Oversight
DONATE: While the world's attention is rightly focused on the Coronavirus pandemic, it has lost sight of many other critical global developments. I have in fact noticed that the site traffic to this blog has declined considerably during this period. I am concerned that the world is ignoring crucial issues, even ones that have a direct connection to the … [Read more...]
Knesset Speaker Resigns, Provoking Major Political Crisis
Today, Israel's Knesset Speaker, Likud veteran, Yuli Edelstein, resigned rather than follow a Supreme Court directive to convene the legislative body. He had adjourned it with the excuse that the Covid-19 epidemic rendered it too dangerous to meet. The Court had ordered him to reopen proceedings to elect a new Blue and White Speaker. But in the event of a s … [Read more...]
Israel’s Shin Bet Transforms Mission from Hunting Terrorists to Hunting the Sick
One of the many anti-democratic ploys unleashed by the Likud in the last dying days of its control over current Israeli politics, was the end-around Bibi Netanyahu did circumventing the Knesset to employ a secret database of all Israeli citizens and monitor them for Covid-19. The NY Times reports that a 2002 directive permitted the Shin Bet secret police to … [Read more...]
