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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

GPS jamming

An Israir flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, August 25, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
October 6, 2024, 3:05 pm
GPS jamming amid wars playing havoc with airline navigation – report
Around 1,000 flights a day suffer GPS interference as they pass near Israel or Ukraine, experts tell UK’s Times; in some cases, errors continue even after planes leave region
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jews shop at the Yesh Chesed Supermarket in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, August 1, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
August 4, 2024, 1:23 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 4: Day 303 – Iran attack scenarios and how Israel could counter them
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on fighting in Gaza, continued conflict along the northern border, airstrikes against Hamas terrorists in the West Bank – and Waze disruptions
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: planes on an airport tarmac (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
July 4, 2024, 11:10 am
Major GPS disruptions in Middle East coming from IDF airbase — NY Times
University of Texas researchers use signals picked up by satellites to pinpoint Ein Shemer Airfield as source
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Atmosphere at The Cut's "How I Get It Done" Presented By Bumble at The Premiere on January 21, 2024 in Park City, Utah. (Robin Marchant/Getty Images for The Cut /AFP)
March 11, 2024, 12:16 pm
Israeli and Lebanese users of dating apps are made strange bedfellows by war-baffled GPS
Applications that match users based on their location have apparently been bamboozled by IDF jamming location signals, leading to unusual cross-border suggestions
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: An Israeli soldier prepares a drone to be launched near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, January 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
February 23, 2024, 5:46 pm
Israel’s GPS warfare aims to keep its own drones flying and enemies baffled
Local start-up has been supplying the military with means to handle Hamas GPS jamming; the country has also apparently been working to confuse opponents’ navigation systems
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: An Etihad Airways plane lands at at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on October 20, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
September 20, 2023, 8:59 pm
Airport Authority: GPS jamming is forcing planes to land using alternative routes
After noise complaints from West Bank settlements, authority cryptically says disruptions likely caused by forces outside the country; Russia was blamed for interference in past
By Michael Horovitz
An oil tanker is moored off Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, Aug. 4, 2021. Technology to hide a ship's location previously available only to the world's militaries is spreading fast through the global maritime industry. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
February 3, 2022, 11:13 am
US foes evade sanctions by deploying digital warfare tech to hide vessels at sea
Countries such as Iran, Venezuela move oil in defiance of US by manipulating ships’ GPS; Israeli head of maritime intelligence company: Companies use tech on ‘astonishing’ scale
By Joshua Goodman
Illustrative: An El Al plane lands at Ben Gurion Airport, on October 13, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 31, 2022, 10:39 pm
Russian jammer in Syria said to cause interference with flights to Israel
Pilot says spoofing, which tricks plane’s GPS into thinking it is elsewhere, is affecting civilian flights over Mediterranean; Israel complained publicly of issue in 2019
By ToI Staff
An airplane takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, on November 15, 2018. (Flash90/File)
August 5, 2019, 9:22 pm
Disruption of GPS systems at Ben Gurion Airport resolved after 2 months
No details given on how or why interference to planes’ navigation systems came to an end; Russian military in Syria blamed
By ToI Staff
The source of a signal interfering with GPS reception for planes flying over Israel, located on Russia's Khmeimim Air Base in western Syria, from a presentation by aerospace engineer Todd Humphreys to the US government in June 2019. (Courtesy)
June 28, 2019, 7:48 pm
GPS jamming affecting Israel comes from Russian base in Syria: US researcher
Signal that has been interfering with airplanes in Israeli airspace is detectable from space, appears to come from new deployment of Moscow’s electronic warfare systems
By Judah Ari Gross
An airplane drives along the runway at Ben Gurion International Airport, on May 8, 2018. (Flash90)
June 27, 2019, 9:49 am
Moscow blamed for disruption of GPS systems at Ben Gurion Airport
Israeli officials say interference caused by Russian military in Syria; Russian embassy dismisses accusation as ‘fake news’
By Judah Ari Gross
An airplane takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, on November 15, 2018. (Flash90/File)
June 26, 2019, 8:33 pm
Flights at Ben Gurion Airport suffer weeks of interruption to GPS systems
Airports Authority says it doesn’t know what’s behind the navigation interference, but problem hasn’t caused safety issues; pilots association cites possible ‘attack’
By Judah Ari Gross
A driver uses a GPS-based app to navigate (Pixabay)
May 22, 2016, 12:32 pm
Cyber-crooks meet their match with Israeli-developed GPS protector
Jamming of signals is the latest weapon used by hackers to make money – and Focus Telecom has an affordable solution
By ToI Staff
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