14.11.22|Tomer GanonThe AI profiling system being used by police at Ben-Gurion Airport aims to identify who might be smuggling drugs based on undisclosed data and regardless of any actual suspicion
13.11.22|CTechHelping police and security forces is gratifying to Yossi Carmil, CEO of Cellebrite, because he gets to make an impact on people’s safety.
02.08.22|Tomer GanonThe Marari report, which investigated the use of spyware by police, including NSO’s Pegasus, found that information was extracted from mobile devices in violation of the law, as well as serious failures in supervision and control procedures by police
07.02.22|Tomer GanonCEOs of government ministries, journalists, tycoons, corporate executives, mayors, social activists, and even the Prime Minister’s relatives, all were police targets, having their phones hacked by NSO’s spyware, prior to any investigation even opening and without any judicial authorization
02.02.22|Zvi ZerahiaMinistry of Justice orders the establishment of an investigation team that will submit conclusions within 5 months
25.01.22|Meir OrbachAsher Levy, who served as Chairman since April 2020, has left the embattled company behind the Pegasus spyware
23.01.22|Tomer GanonPolice tapped phones of three heads of local authorities, whom law enforcement suspected of engaging in corrupt activity, but no evidence was found and no indictment filed; some were detained, with their homes searched
20.01.22|Tomer GanonMarking the target, hacking the phone, filing the information, real-time tracking and data analysis - Calcalist reveals what every step of the spyware operation looked like
19.01.22|Tomer GanonThe police’s cyber division employs external hackers to collect intelligence on targets. The hackers don’t have security clearance, were not trained as police officers, and are exposed to extremely private and secret information
18.01.22|Tomer GanonMayors, leaders of political protests against former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former governmental employees, were among those tracked by police without a search or bugging warrant authorizing the surveillance
21.05.21|James SpiroThe subscription service scans public videos to categorize noticeable features
28.10.20|DJ DasAI-powered predictive analytics solutions can provide crucial insights to law enforcement teams, allowing them to fairly and effectively enforce lockdown restrictions and back up their decision-making with data
03.08.20|Udi EtsionThe system, priced at $50,000, is developed by Israeli startup SKYLOCK and has already been sold to the U.S. Army and NATO forces
17.05.20|Amir KurtzYoav Sapir, Israel’s National Public Defender, witnessed how quickly justice was eroded under the state of emergency—cops that acted out of order, courthouses that shut their doors to the needy and undue surveillance of citizens— but he still believes that Covid-19 is an opportunity to make improvements
25.03.20|Tomer GanonPolice will only be allowed to gather sporadic real-time location information to make sure those who have the virus or were in risk of exposure remain in their designated quarantine locations
17.03.20|Omer KabirAfter a parliamentary subcommittee refused to grant police and Shin Bet the authority to use technological means to monitor the location of coronavirus patients, the Israeli government utilized the country’s permanent state of emergency to pass the regulations
08.10.19|Omer KabirAn inner document obtained by Calcalist reveals the police has set up a dedicated “shaming” officer who is in charge of removing negative comments and posts from social media, and that the agency also previously planned to create a real-time monitoring system of such posts
10.07.19|Amir KurzOn March 12, Israel Police arrested 42 people suspected of holding top management positions in Israeli drug distribution network Telegrass, which operated via encrypted instant messaging app Telegram
04.07.19|Lilach Baumer, Shachar Ilan, and Meir OrbachIsrael’s Ethiopian community took to the streets again on Wednesday afternoon to protest police violence, racial profiling, and discrimination
03.07.19|Lilach BaumerA night of riots resulted in over a hundred cops and many protestors and bystanders injured and 136 protestors detained; damage was caused to private property, police cars, and ambulances