Surveillance

State wanted extension through July

Chairman of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee MK Zvi Hauser noted that the incident was especially serious, because it continued for about a month before being exposed.

The expected decision, though it had not been issued at press time, comes after pressure on three fronts.

In the balance is whether the Shin Bet will continue its surveillance of the country’s infected citizens.

The High Court had previously appeared to support Shin Bet surveillance of coronavirus-infected citizens.

However, the monitoring system does not have facial recognition capabilities.

Lately Amnesty has been targeting Israel through its fixation on Pegasus, a software that can be “injected” into smartphones to track the user’s location, calls, messages, etc.

A limited committee formed by the Justice Ministry approved the plan and Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit later approved the plan as well.

The United States District Court of the Northern District of California denied most of the arguments NSo Group made in its request in April.