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Pandemic mutates from health to strategic security challenge

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Published: 28 April 2020

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Questions are raised over whether Mossad has been used to boost Netanyahu’s standing, High Court rules Shin Bet surveillance of virus carriers must be enshrined in law

Israel weighs strategic implications of coronavirus crisis (Al-Monitor)
BEN CASPIT: Israeli intelligence is unsure whether the pandemic will ease tensions with neighbouring countries or do just the opposite

Mossad's role fighting coronavirus in Israel is not as it seems (Middle East Eye)
YOSSI MELMAN, DAN RAVIV: Israel's famed and feared intelligence agency was said to have stolen medical equipment to boost the country's Covid-19 defence. In reality, it has boosted Netanyahu's standing

High Court: Shin Bet surveillance of virus carriers must be enshrined in law (Times of Israel)
Justices say security service can’t continue to gather cell phone location data after Thursday, unless Knesset begins legislation process

Photo: A man wearing a protective face mask holds an Israeli flag during a demonstration in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, April 19 (Corinna Kern/Reuters)
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