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An Iranian security force officer stands guard next to a huge billboard of Iran's newly nominated supreme leader Ayatollah Mojataba Khamenei during Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally in Tehran on March 13, 2026. (Photo by AFP)
March 24, 2026, 9:33 am
Iran built a vast camera network to control dissent. Israel turned it into a targeting tool
Cybersurveillance emerges as key weapon of war after Israel used Tehran’s street cameras to assassinate Khamenei, though regime’s leaders were long aware of potential threat
By Dake Kang and SAM MEDNICK
An illustrative photo of a security camera. (Oliver Peters via Pixabay)
December 25, 2025, 7:35 pm
Knesset passes law allowing IDF, Shin Bet to hack into civilian security cameras
Security agencies allowed to access civilian systems without a judicial warrant; bill ‘disproportionately violates human rights, first and foremost the right to privacy,’ says ACRI
By Sam Sokol
A man yanks at the sidecurls of an ultra-Orthodox passerby in Jerusalem, December 4, 2024. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 5, 2024, 1:32 pm
East Jerusalem man yanks Haredi passerby’s sidelocks, spits and hurls ‘racist’ insults
East Jerusalem man in his 20s arrested over incident, which took place near Old City; court to consider request to extend his detention on Thursday
By ToI Staff
In this June 10, 2020, photo, an official wearing a mask due to the coronavirus pandemic operates a temperature screening point at Dubai International Airport's Terminal 3 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
July 9, 2020, 1:06 pm
Virus projects renew questions about United Arab Emirates’ mass surveillance
UAE’s multitude of cameras, which gained fame when they quickly identified an alleged Mossad hit team in 2010, are now searching for the coronavirus — and alarming rights groups
By Jon Gambrell
A police officer stands guard at a roadblock on a road leading to Ein Hemed, near Jerusalem, on April 28, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
May 6, 2020, 6:45 pm
Police said to keep huge secret database on movement of Israelis’ cars
Report says footage being kept from smart cameras that can identify license plates, ostensibly to track crime or terror suspects, but without any apparent oversight mechanism
By ToI Staff
An Israeli man holds his dog while casting his ballot at a polling station in Rosh Haayin, on September 17, 2019. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)
March 1, 2020, 2:57 pm
Bolstered elections committee staff to prowl polling stations with cameras
Amid warnings of vote disruption, 5,000 specially appointed monitors will now be able to film without first requesting specific permission from Central Elections Committee
By Raoul Wootliff
Then-IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz has a snowball fight with a family of Palestinians along the West Bank's Route 60 on December 15, 2013. (Judah Ari Gross/Israel Defense Forces)
December 29, 2019, 12:59 am
12 stories in 2019 that made Times of Israel reporters cry, laugh, cringe, cheer
As the year draws to a close, our reporters reflect on the work that touched them the most, from clambering the cliffs of Qumran to boogying at the Eurovision
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at an event opening the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency in Jerusalem, December 15, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 17, 2019, 8:15 pm
Responding to Sa’ar petition, Netanyahu backs cameras in Likud polling stations
But PM notes position does not change his view that party’s internal court can dispute an earlier elections committee decision to nix installing surveillance systems
By ToI Staff
Likud lawmaker Gideon Sa'ar visits the West Bank area known as E1 near the Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, on December 10, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 17, 2019, 11:03 am
Quoting Netanyahu, challenger Sa’ar demands cameras in primary polling stations
‘Only those who want to steal elections are opposed to placing cameras,’ PM had said ahead of September vote, but Likud officials have rejected using them for leadership vote
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian man uses a biometric gate as he crosses into Israel at the Qalandiya crossing in Jerusalem, July 11, 2019. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)
November 17, 2019, 1:25 am
Microsoft hires ex-AG Holder to audit Israeli face-scanning firm
Software giant has come under scrutiny over its investment in AnyVision, whose surveillance technology is used to track Palestinians
By AP and ToI Staff
Arab Israeli voters at a polling station in Sakhnin on September 17, 2019. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)
September 17, 2019, 4:10 pm
In Arab town of Sakhnin, dismal turnout, not cameras, seen as election threat
A dozen voters say PM’s failed bid to place cameras in polling booths didn’t deter them, but worry not enough others showing up to cast ballots
By Adam Rasgon
Arab Israelis at a polling station in Kafr Manda near Haifa on election day, September 17, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
September 17, 2019, 3:28 pm
Police temporarily close several polling stations over suspected voter fraud
Station in Umm al-Fahm shuttered over illegal filming, while 3 stations in Yarka are closed for hours and voting is extended for 2 hours
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press statement in the Knesset on September 15, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 16, 2019, 6:09 am
Netanyahu alleges ‘rampant’ Arab voter fraud scandal, but his claim is unfounded
PM insists law enforcement not properly probing ballot infractions in Arab sector; official says Likud’s officials endured threats, but those cases did not amount to voter fraud
By Jacob Magid
An Arab Israeli man prepares to vote in Israel's parliamentary elections on April 9, 2019, at a school-turned-polling station in the northern Israeli town of Taibe. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
September 15, 2019, 10:13 pm
With cameras banned, new right-wing patrol seeks to ‘prevent Arab voter fraud’
Election czar set to rule on new initiative by settler leaders that would see dozens stand outside polling stations to provide ‘feeling of security’ for ballot officials inside
By Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 3, 2019. (Sebastian Scheiner/Pool/AFP)
September 9, 2019, 4:50 pm
The dark motivations behind Netanyahu’s bid to put cameras into polling stations
This is not an issue of left or right, but rather one of electoral integrity and the proper functioning of democracy
By David Horovitz
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