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Illustrative: Kids playing games on phones. (Kerkez/iStock by Getty Images)
December 11, 2025, 2:19 pm
Cellphones to be banned from elementary schools nationwide starting February
Education Minister Yoav Kisch says move is designed to foster ‘a healthy and safe educational climate’
By ToI Staff
Haredi protesters blocking a light rail train in Jerusalem on February 21, 2023. (screen capture: Twitter/Yair Levy; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 22, 2023, 3:20 am
Ultra-Orthodox extremists riot outside Jerusalem police HQ, block light rail
Hundreds demonstrate at several locations in capital to protest detention of suspect in cellphone store torching; two arrested over disturbances
By ToI Staff
ILLUSTRATIVE: A man holds up his cellular phone certificating that it is 'kosher' at the entrance to an ultra-Orthodox school in Jerusalem on May 6, 2020. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)
July 19, 2022, 1:38 am
‘Kosher’ phone freedom policy changes are hard to swallow for ultra-Orthodox rabbis
New rules enabling customers to discreetly transfer their phones from a restricted device to a smart one faces opposition from Israeli religious authorities
By Eetta Prince-Gibson
Stressed mother holding smartphone (iStock)
December 21, 2021, 10:51 am
Israeli study: Mothers’ smartphone use could damage toddler development
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
By Stuart Winer
A logo adorns a wall on a branch of the Israeli NSO Group company, near the southern Israeli town of Sapir, August 24, 2021. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
October 5, 2021, 11:24 am
Scandal-hit Israeli phone-snooping firm backs international spyware rules
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
By Katy Lee and Fabien Zamora
Belarusian opposition supporters gather for a protest rally in front of the government building at Independent Square in Minsk, Belarus, August 18, 2020. (Dmitri Lovetsky/AP)
August 19, 2020, 11:01 pm
Rights activists raise alarm over Israeli cellphone hacking tech sold to Belarus
Lobbyists urge Defense Ministry to curb export of Cellebrite’s technology to Lukashenko regime as long-time dictator cracks down on opposition
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Smuggled cellphones discovered in an Israeli prison, October 2017 (Israel Police)
July 28, 2020, 12:36 pm
Attempt thwarted to smuggle cellphones to security prisoners via hospital visits
Devices reportedly concealed in bathroom at Barzilai Medical Center ahead of arrival of six inmates from Ketziot Prison for doctor’s appointments
By ToI Staff
Israeli border police wear protective gear and masks at the Ein Yael Checkpoint, near the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, March 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )
April 22, 2020, 6:20 pm
Knesset panel freezes police tracking of phones to enforce quarantine
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
By ToI Staff
Police officers in protective gear stand on Route 1 near Jerusalem on April 5, 2020, after a man infected with the coronavirus was arrested on a bus traveling to the city. (Flash90)
April 8, 2020, 5:58 pm
Cabinet extends phone tracking by Shin Bet to fight coronavirus
Program, which gives domestic spy agency and police access to private cellphone and credit card data to track those infected, authorized until April 14
By ToI Staff
Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a Shas party election rally at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem on February 29, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 19, 2020, 2:57 am
Chief rabbi allows cellphones on Shabbat for lifesaving virus messages
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
By ToI Staff
Cellphones and SIM cards found inside a security prisoner's abdomen. (Israel Prisons Service)
February 16, 2020, 11:20 am
Security prisoner caught with 11 contraband cellphones inside his abdomen
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
By ToI Staff
FaceApp is displayed on an iPhone, July 17, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
December 3, 2019, 10:28 am
FBI warns FaceApp is ‘potential counterintelligence threat’ from Russia
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’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Cellphones found hidden in the fender of a food delivery truck arriving at the Ketziot Prison, October 24, 2019. (Israel Prison Service)
October 24, 2019, 2:50 pm
Prison guards thwart attempt to smuggle cellphones to security inmates
Contraband devices hidden in fender of food truck delivering supplies to Ketziot Prison; dozens of SIM cards also seized
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of security prisoners in an Israeli prison (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
September 12, 2019, 2:25 am
23 security prisoners put in solitary confinement for hunger strike threat
Inmates at Ramon facility protest the blocking of cellphone signals in wards amid ongoing dispute over smuggled devices
By ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers evacuate a wounded guard of the Israel Prison Service to Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheva, southern Israel, on March 24, 2019. Two prison service guards were stabbed by Hamas prisoners at the Ketziot Prison. (Meir Even Haim/Flash90 )
March 24, 2019, 11:59 pm
Hamas inmates riot, stabbing and wounding prison guard in neck
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
By ToI Staff
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