Amir Cahane is researcher in the Israel Democracy Institute and a research fellow in The Federmann Cyber Security Research Center—Cyber Law Program
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While the court in Orich granted the Israeli police some judicial leeway, recent developments may have presented new challenges for the ruling.
Israel reinstated contact-tracing activities by the Israel Security Agency to track carriers of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. Five days later, it halted the ISA’s contact-tracing activities, due to a lack of parliamentary support.
The Israeli government has reauthorized the General Security Agency to share metadata with the Ministry of Health for the purpose of combating the coronavirus.
On March 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a plan to employ advanced digital monitoring tools, mainly used for counterterrorism purposes, to track carriers of the coronavirus and mitigate the spread of COVID-19.