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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
Illustrative: A US ninth grader places her cellphone in to a phone holder as she enters class at Delta High School, February 23, 2024, in Delta, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
August 31, 2025, 12:18 pm
Tel Aviv’s pilot ban on smartphones in high schools meets opposition from students
As city preps for six schools to take away mobiles at start of each day, some students say program is ‘unreasonable,’ don’t intend to comply
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A woman walks next to an advertisement for Golan Telecom in Jerusalem, November 5, 2015. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)
July 23, 2024, 11:25 am
Kosher cellphone bill sparks debate on Haredi consumer freedoms vs communal coercion
New legislation would reinforce phone plans that are under rabbinical censorship, raising questions about internal societal pressures and control
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative image: a medic monitors a patient and checked his heart rate (Zinkevych via iStock by Getty Images)
November 22, 2022, 9:42 am
Israeli app sounds alarm before heart failure — just by analyzing your voice
In congestive heart failure study with recovered patients who used HearO, its technology predicts some 82% of relapses, catching them on average 18 days before they occur
By Nathan Jeffay
Smartphone waste. (MikroLogika, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
October 31, 2022, 4:00 pm
Israeli-made vending machine offers easy sale, trade and recycling of used phones
RE-Refurbished Smartphones Revolution provides a one-stop shop to reduce e-waste, production energy, natural resource depletion and mining-related damage
By Sue Surkes
The women of 'Bnot Brak' (from left): Simi Hershkop, Ofra Shimoni, Nana Halperin, Esti Socolovski and Yael Silverman. (HOT)
September 11, 2022, 12:15 pm
The Haredi women not afraid to step outside the box — and onto the screen
New HOT reality series ‘Bnot Brak’ debuts Sunday, spotlighting the lives of five ultra-Orthodox women who embrace social media and are eager to show the diversity of Haredi life
By Amy Spiro
European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton at a press conference on a common charging solution for mobile phones at the EU headquarters in Brussels, September 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Thierry Monasse)
June 7, 2022, 8:11 pm
Cord accord: EU mandates universal charger type to power up devices
New rules, slated to take effect by fall 2024, will require the use of the USB Type-C cable for small and medium-sized rechargeable, portable electronic devices
By Kelvin Chan
A teacher holding up his cellular phone certificating that it is a 'kosher' one, at the entrance to at an Ultra-Orthodox school in Jerusalem, on May 6, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 14, 2022, 1:29 pm
Despite Haredi ire, minister OKs full number mobility on kosher phone lines
Yoaz Hendel’s directive will allow users to transfer distinctive ‘kosher’ phone numbers to other non-restricted providers, essentially ending contentious ultra-Orthodox monopoly
By ToI Staff
A teacher holding up his cell phone at the entrance to at an ultra-Orthodox school in Jerusalem on May 6, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
February 9, 2022, 9:32 pm
‘Dumb’ phone sales jump in Israel amid fears of NSO’s Pegasus
Importer sees nearly 200% increase in sale of non-smart devices following claims police spied on citizens; finance minister flaunts his own simple phone on Twitter
By ToI Staff
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of Poland's ruling party Law and Justice, speaks at a news conference in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday Oct. 26, 2021 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
January 7, 2022, 12:53 pm
Polish leader admits country bought powerful Israeli-made spyware
But Jaroslaw Kaczynski denies Pegasus was used to target his political opponents; ‘It would be bad if the Polish services did not have this type of tool,’ he says
By Vanessa Gera
Polish Senator Krzysztof Brejza on the night of parliamentary elections, on October 13, 2019. (AP Photo)
January 7, 2022, 3:02 am
Amnesty verifies Polish senator was hacked with NSO spyware
Although investigators have not determined who ordered hacks, victims all blame Poland’s right-wing ruling party, Law and Justice
By Vanessa Gera
Screen capture from video of John Scott-Railton of the Citizen Lab watchdog group, November, 2020. (YouTube)
December 30, 2021, 8:00 am
Polish use of NSO spyware against gov’t opponents is ‘tip of the iceberg’ — expert
‘Pegasus is a tool of dictators,’ says researcher from watchdog about Israeli software; adds that more cases are expected; warns it shows ‘authoritarian slide’ in Poland
By AFP
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
Illustrative image of a robot, Artificial Intelligence (AI); (PhonlamaiPhoto; iStock by Getty Images)
April 29, 2021, 3:20 pm
Using smartphones and AI, psychiatrists get toolkit for remote assessment
Israel-based medical startup Montfort creates app to help diagnose and treat psychiatric disorders, transforming mental health into exact science
By Jake Epstein
Commuters look at their smartphones as they walk through a subway station in Beijing, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
March 12, 2021, 5:40 am
Cellphone obsessives are grinding their teeth, losing sleep — Israeli study
Saying symptoms are related to FOMO, researchers find those with smartphone dependency are physically hurting themselves
By Nathan Jeffay
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