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A security guard checks the temperature of customers to identify if they have fever in a Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on March 18, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

The coronavirus pandemic will end. Israel’s extreme surveillance will not

Israel is preventing oversight of its virus policy while partnering with high-tech companies to monitor citizens. Critics worry these methods are here to stay.

By Robert Swift March 19, 2020

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was released from prison on September 20, 2018. She was arrested in October 2015, and later convicted of incitement to terrorism and violence for poems she published on social media. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour set free

Dareen Tatour, who was arrested and jailed for poems she published on social media, is released from prison. Tatour: ‘It will be impossible to stop my writing.’ By Oren Ziv Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was released today after serving 42 days in prison. Her five-month sentence was reduced by 97 days, the same amount of…

By Oren Ziv September 20, 2018

Illustrative photo by Sliman Khader/Flash90

What we’re doing to protect your privacy: +972 and HTTPS

As part of our commitment to promoting freedom of information and fighting censorship, we recently added an important layer of encryption to our website. Here’s why we did it, and what it means for you. Over the past year we at +972 Magazine have dedicated significant resources into expanding our journalistic focus on censorship, freedom…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man January 3, 2017

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Illustrative photo of digital surveillance. (Shutterstock.com)

Against spy revelations, Israel doth protest too much

The nation’s establishment has called the whistle-blowers of Unit 8200 every bad name, but it has no answer to their charge that information deliberately gathered on innocent Palestinians is used to blackmail them into collaborating. The 43 refuseniks in Unit 8200, Israel’s legendary high-tech snoops, are this week’s Gideon Levys, this week’s Haneen Zoabis –…

By Larry Derfner September 16, 2014

Edward Snowden in Moscow, October 9, 2013. (Screenshot: WikiLeaks)

+972’s Person of the Year: Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden’s disclosures exposing the extent of NSA surveillance taught us more about our relationship with government than any other exposure or event. In fact, we learned about relationships we didn’t even know we had. But the Snowden leaks didn’t just change what we know; they sparked a discussion that could very well change the…

By +972 Magazine December 28, 2013