Surveillance

Israel can maintain military edge by expanding into space, sources tell 'Post'

With only seven countries deeply involved in developing space capabilities, Israel now has a larger qualitative advantage in that arena than in others where it once had an advantage.

 Israel Aerospace Industries launches communications satellite "Dror 1" into space, July 13, 2025.
High Court Justice Daphne Barak-Erez arrives for a hearing on petitions calling to halt or substantially limit State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman’s investigations into the failures surrounding the Hamas's October 7 massacre, December 29, 2025; illustrative.

'Systematic failures': Israel Police carried out illegal surveillance for years, probe finds

An illustration of the flags of Iran, Uganda, and Israel.

Iran's IRGC-QF recruits Ugandan to spy on Israel's African embassies - report

 Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security services, at a state ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7 of last year which sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024.

Shin Bet politicization dangerous to Israel's security, rights of Israelis - opinion


Secret CIA surveillance program collected records of US citizens

Two US senators said the CIA had kept a bulk surveillance program secret from the public and Congress.

 The logo of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is shown in the lobby of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia March 3, 2005.

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.

Israel's police cannot commit crimes to fight crime - editorial

The use of these tracking technologies without judicial oversight and the required permission cannot be justified and presents a severe violation of basic civil liberties.

THE ISRAEL POLICE conducts its high-level investigations through Lahav 433, the country’s ‘FBI,’ headquartered in this building in Lod.

The Israeli public has a right to know about illegal surveillance - opinion

Civilians should have the tools to sue for such infringements on their privacy.

 PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett with Israel Police chief Insp.-Gen. Kobi Shabtai during a ceremony after the largest-ever police operation against illegal gun dealers, in Tel Aviv in November.

Israeli hotel owner arrested for secretly filming guests

Israel Police issued a seven-day closure order on the hotel as the owner, a 37-year-old Holon resident and father of two, was released to house arrest.

 View of Jaffa, central Israel

Israel Police zigzag on NSO affair: New findings change 'state of affairs'

Police had come under fire for allegedly using spyware like NSO's Pegasus against Israeli citizens without authority.

Israel Police Chief Kobi Shabtai and head of Jerusalem police district Doron Turgeman meet with press near the Damascus gate, following the recent days of clashes between jewish right-wing extremists and Palestinians, April 24, 2021

Police: 'There is no proof to spyware allegations, everything was legal'

Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit said initial examination did not turn up evidence of systemic misuse of surveillance technologies.

Avicahi Mandelblit

More Polish NSO Group phone-hacking victims likely - researcher

Late last year, Canadian researchers said phones of a senior opposition politician and two prominent government critics were hacked using Israeli Pegasus spyware.

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.

IAEA chief shows off Iran-style nuke monitoring camera

The director-general pushed back on questions that he had not achieved sufficient restoration of monitoring of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

Surveillance, illustrative

Gov’t privacy authority questions need for Shin Bet to track Omicron

There was a prior Knesset law authorizing Shin Bet tracking of the coronavirus, but it expired this past July.

SECURITY SURVEILLANCE monitors. Privacy advocates argue that even if the official transfer of data does not identify individuals, anyone who wants to abuse the information to invade an individual’s privacy can do so with ease