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Cellphones to be banned from elementary schools nationwide starting February

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:19:57 +0000

Education Minister Yoav Kisch says move is designed to foster 'a healthy and safe educational climate'

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Ultra-Orthodox extremists riot outside Jerusalem police HQ, block light rail

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 01:20:30 +0000

Hundreds demonstrate at several locations in capital to protest detention of suspect in cellphone store torching; two arrested over disturbances

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‘Kosher’ phone freedom policy changes are hard to swallow for ultra-Orthodox rabbis

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 22:38:09 +0000

New rules enabling customers to discreetly transfer their phones from a restricted device to a smart one faces opposition from Israeli religious authorities

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Israeli study: Mothers’ smartphone use could damage toddler development

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 08:51:07 +0000

Tel Aviv University research finds key interactions with child are reduced to a quarter when mom is distracted by phone or reading magazines; same likely true of fathers

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Scandal-hit Israeli phone-snooping firm backs international spyware rules

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 08:24:26 +0000

In letter to the United Nations, NSO Group suggests that companies in the sector should be forced to have human rights compliance systems in place

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Rights activists raise alarm over Israeli cellphone hacking tech sold to Belarus

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:01:08 +0000

Lobbyists urge Defense Ministry to curb export of Cellebrite's technology to Lukashenko regime as long-time dictator cracks down on opposition

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Attempt thwarted to smuggle cellphones to security prisoners via hospital visits

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:36:17 +0000

Devices reportedly concealed in bathroom at Barzilai Medical Center ahead of arrival of six inmates from Ketziot Prison for doctor's appointments

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Knesset panel freezes police tracking of phones to enforce quarantine

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:20:55 +0000

MKs raise concerns over wording of bill that would allow program to be extended, leading government to announce a rethink; Shin Bet tracking of carriers ongoing

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Cabinet extends phone tracking by Shin Bet to fight coronavirus

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 14:58:01 +0000

Program, which gives domestic spy agency and police access to private cellphone and credit card data to track those infected, authorized until April 14

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Chief rabbi allows cellphones on Shabbat for lifesaving virus messages

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 00:57:25 +0000

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says people must have devices available in case Health Ministry needs to notify them to go into quarantine or seek medical treatment

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Security prisoner caught with 11 contraband cellphones inside his abdomen

Sun, 16 Feb 2020 09:20:33 +0000

Israeli Prison Service says that efforts to smuggle devices into Israeli jails happen 'all the time'; phones are intended for use in directing terror attacks

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FBI warns FaceApp is ‘potential counterintelligence threat’ from Russia

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 08:28:25 +0000

Responding to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's request for probe of popular app, agency says Moscow's intelligence services have 'robust cyber exploitation capabilities'

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Prison guards thwart attempt to smuggle cellphones to security inmates

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:50:30 +0000

Contraband devices hidden in fender of food truck delivering supplies to Ketziot Prison; dozens of SIM cards also seized

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23 security prisoners put in solitary confinement for hunger strike threat

Wed, 11 Sep 2019 23:25:07 +0000

Inmates at Ramon facility protest the blocking of cellphone signals in wards amid ongoing dispute over smuggled devices

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Hamas inmates riot, stabbing and wounding prison guard in neck

Sun, 24 Mar 2019 21:59:09 +0000

Second officer lightly injured in riot at Ketziot Prison; 11 inmates wounded in dispute over attempts to block mobile phone usage; prison services say situation under control

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