Pegasus

NSO group names David Friedman chairman amid efforts to overcome US blacklist

Friedman notably served as Trump's ambassador to Israel during the president's first term.

 An illustrative image of the NSO Group logo on a smartphone.
Knesset plenary session. September 29, 2025.

Knesset cm’tee holds heated debate on spyware probe, Arab sector crime

 An illustrative image of the NSO Group logo on a smartphone.

In US, spyware has consequences: Pegasus to pay Meta punitive damages - opinion

 THEN-BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Downing Street, in 2019.

Boris Johnson claims he found bugging device after meeting with PM Netanyahu


Are we in Tel Aviv or Pyongyang?

Illegal police use of NSO spyware, if true, would constitute the gravest assault on civil liberties and fundamental human rights in Israel's modern history.

 WHEN TOO much unchecked power is vested in the hands of faceless bureaucrats, even the strongest of democracies can slide toward oblivion.

NSO threatens Calcalist with defamation suit

NSO has threated Calcalist with a defamation lawsuit for its report alleging the cyber attack firm offers clients an option to delete the logos from its cyberattacks on others’ cell phones.

 A man walks past the logo of Israeli cyber firm NSO Group at one of its branches in the Arava Desert, southern Israel July 22, 2021

Police cannot be allowed to use anti-terror tools against suspects - opinion

The debate as to how to define the Pegasus software in legislation and when it may or may not be used misses the point entirely.

 FORMER ISRAELI police commissioner Roni Alsheich during a visit to the Western Wall in 2016. It was during Alsheich’s tenure that spyware became increasingly used by the police

Who is profiting off the NSO Pegasus spyware affair?

The NSO affair has shaken up public opinion and the political system, but there are also big gainers.

An aerial view shows the logo of Israeli cyber firm NSO Group at one of its branches in the Arava Desert, southern Israel, July 22, 2021.

Why have state probes become so popular in Bennett's government? - analysis

In a government that has a consensus about seeking punishments for its predecessors and not about what should be accomplished now, state commissions are a useful tool.

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Knesset plenum, February 7, 2022.

Bennett adds Shin Bet, Mossad to team probing police hacking scandal

Since Monday’s latest Calcalist disclosures, the political ground has shifted to focusing on what kind of state inquiry to approve.

 Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Minister of Public Security Omer Barlev, Chief of Police Kobi Shabtai and Head of the Northern Command Police District Shimon Lavie seen during a ceremony after the largest ever police operation against illegal gun dealers, in Tel Aviv, November 9, 2021.

Pegasus intelligence capabilities threaten state security - opinion

The majority of those Israelis being monitored by the system were fearful even before they were fully aware of the system’s substantial capabilities.

 ISRAELIS DESERVE security from both external and internal threats.

NSO's Pegasus: How to know you're being tracked - and how to stop it

Do you think your phone is being targeted? These signs could help determine if you've been hacked and what you can do about it.

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Israel's Pegasus-gate: Police must reform for democracy's sake - comment

Something undemocratic and untoward happened inside the police with the Pegasus affair. A top-down reform plan needs to be the repsonse.

 Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai visits at a temporary roadblock on Highway 1 outside Jerusalem

New A-G Baharav-Miara: I will restore public faith after police spying scandal

Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara said she approaches her new office “with a heavy sense of responsibility and knowledge of the importance of her mission.”

 Israel's new Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara is seen at her inauguration.