WhatsApp

The Yasmin Lukatz Project and the Rehabilitation Fund of the Kibbutz Movement

Code for Israel and the Rehabilitation Fund of the Kibbutz Movement introduced a technological solution to strengthen and grow kibbutz communities after the war.

Yasmin Lukatz, founder of Code for Israel
The new feature allows each group participant to add a short “tag”.

Who’s who in the group? WhatsApp allows adding personal tags next to names

 Cyber attacks spiked in 2021

Key barrier to online fraud can be bypassed for pennies, say researchers

 Many people have joined WhatsApp groups that have members of not-for-profits, mothers seeking supplies for their children’s platoons, vendors who can supply goods, and apparently one or more Iranian spies.

IDF security crackdown can’t fix Israel’s WhatsApp addiction


Check your phone: Spyware found in apps impersonating WhatsApp, Facebook

A new version of the SpyNote spyware can impersonate other apps and steal your social media and banking information. How can you protect yourself?

 Cyberattack on a smartphone. Beware of downloading spyware (Illustrative).

Why I refuse to ever use emojis - opinion

I have never ever used an emoji in the fervent, and some might argue snobbishly purist or outdated, belief that words are the most accurate and nuanced, richest and deepest communicators.

 EMOJIS: SHORTHAND forms of the digital age.

Meta's WhatsApp fined 5.5m euros by lead EU privacy regulator

WhatsApp said it intended to appeal the decision, and that it strongly believed that the way its service operates is both technically and legally compliant.

 Facebook's new rebrand logo Meta is seen on smartpone in front of displayed logo of Facebook, Messenger, Intagram, Whatsapp and Oculus in this illustration picture taken October 28, 2021

US Supreme Court lets Meta's WhatsApp pursue 'Pegasus' spyware suit

NSO had argued that it is immune from being sued because it was acting as an agent for unidentified foreign governments.

 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

The autistics' WhatsApp: the innovative invention of the student on the spectrum  

Ido Arbili is a 12th grade student and is also on the autistic spectrum. He invented a WhatsApp-like program that will allow autistics to better communicate with each other.

 Ido Arbili

You won't believe what this new WhatsApp feature can do

Android users enjoy: A new WhatsApp feature has been developed with which you can design an avatar in your own image or according to your specifications.

 A 3D printed Whatsapp logo is pictured on a keyboard in front of binary code in this illustration taken September 24, 2021.

Are Israelis too dependent on WhatsApp?

A recent outage lasted for only an hour — just long enough to wonder whether it’s a good idea for a nation’s communication to run on a single app.

Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of Whatsapp logo in this picture illustration

Whatsapp comes back online after being down for two hours

WhatsApp is the most widely-used messaging application in Israel and is used to communicate via text even more frequently than SMS.

WhatsApp logo is seen in this illustration taken August 22, 2022.

Russia's financial monitoring agency adds Meta to 'extremists' list

A Moscow court in June rejected an appeal by Meta - the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp - after it was found guilty of "extremist activity" in Russia in March.

 Facebook's new rebrand logo Meta is seen on smartpone in front of displayed logo of Facebook, Messenger, Intagram, Whatsapp and Oculus in this illustration picture taken October 28, 2021

Telegram founder calls WhatsApp a 'surveillance tool'

Telegram's founder Pavel Durov has spoken out against WhatsApp's security vulnerabilities in the past.

 3D printed Telegram and WhatsApp logos are placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken January 21, 2021