Government renews electronic tracking - for two weeks

• Date: 15 March 2021
• Author: Arutz Sheva Staff
• Published date: 15 March 2021
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

The new plan will allow Shabak (Israel Security Agency) to track the cellular phones of those who reported less than five contacts in their epidemiological investigation.

Tracking will be completely discontinued when Israel has less than 1,000 new coronavirus cases daily, or when the tracking will be found to locate less than 5% of coronavirus carriers for three consecutive weeks.

On Sunday, Israel's tracking of confirmed coronavirus carriers officially came to an end.

Earlier this month, Israel's Supreme Court ruled against the government's covert...