Surveillance

Israel can maintain military edge by expanding into space, sources tell 'Post'

With only seven countries deeply involved in developing space capabilities, Israel now has a larger qualitative advantage in that arena than in others where it once had an advantage.

 Israel Aerospace Industries launches communications satellite "Dror 1" into space, July 13, 2025.
High Court Justice Daphne Barak-Erez arrives for a hearing on petitions calling to halt or substantially limit State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman’s investigations into the failures surrounding the Hamas's October 7 massacre, December 29, 2025; illustrative.

'Systematic failures': Israel Police carried out illegal surveillance for years, probe finds

An illustration of the flags of Iran, Uganda, and Israel.

Iran's IRGC-QF recruits Ugandan to spy on Israel's African embassies - report

 Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security services, at a state ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7 of last year which sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024.

Shin Bet politicization dangerous to Israel's security, rights of Israelis - opinion


Can the FBI monitor your WhatsApp conversations?

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.

Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of Whatsapp logo in this picture illustration

Shin Bet tracking of COVID-19 Omicron patients blocked by Arab party

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.

AFTER THE right-wing parties of the opposition voted against it, members of the Joint List celebrate the defeat of the citizenship law in the Knesset this week.

Is it legal to bring Shin Bet back into coronavirus tracking? - analysis

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.

 Incoming Shin Bet leader Ronen Bar.

Israeli-Arab violence: Will all hell break loose with Shin Bet's involvement? - analysis

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?

A car set on fire by Israeli Arab residents during riots and clashes between Arab and Jewish residents, in the central Israeli town of Lod, on May 12, 2021.

Israeli security firm used to surveil Britney Spears by father

A former employee of the Israeli-owned firm reveals how the company was tasked with monitoring the singer's phone conversations, even planting a listening device in her bedroom

Singer Britney Spears arrives at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards in New York

WHO says Guinea monitoring confirmed 155 cases of Ebola-like Marburg virus

Guinea was declared free of Ebola two months ago, following an outbreak that killed 12 people.

 A member of the French Red Cross disinfects the area around a motionless person suspected of carrying the Ebola virus as a crowd gathers in Forecariah, Guinea.

Exclusive: Is satellite footage of attacked Iran facility being blocked?

It is possible that few US satellite imagery services withheld images of Iran's nuclear facility in Natanz.

Warehouse fire along Karaj Special Road near Tehran, July 5, 2021

If the claims are true, will NSO take responsibility this time?

NSO is adamant that it maintains the strictest of guidelines and supervision. But if the reports are true, then those standards are not doing the job.

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Massive data leak uncovers human rights abuses using Israeli tech - report

The leak contains a list of over 50,000 phone numbers that the report estimated were identified as “people of interest” by clients of Israeli spyware company NSO Group since 2016.

SECURITY SURVEILLANCE monitors. Privacy advocates argue that even if the official transfer of data does not identify individuals, anyone who wants to abuse the information to invade an individual’s privacy can do so with ease

Knesset uses High Court ruling to drop oversight of Shin Bet

Decreasing levels of infection rates may explain the lower level of action on the court’s part.

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