Freedom of information

Netanyahu US trips: $13,000 for hair and makeup, $500 smoking fee, $125 traffic ticket

The largest charge during that visit was $51,661 for Washington's Watergate Hotel, while the total itemized charges in the report came to approximately $128,900.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a vote at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on July 16, 2026.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Knesset vote, July 16, 2026.

Public funds spent on Netanyahu's residences near NIS 2m. in 2025, new disclosure reveals

Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from the city of Ashkelon, Israel, October 9, 2023.

The US and Israel need an Iron Dome for the information war

 L to R: Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and US President Donald Trump against backdrop of respective flags and missile strikes.

Iran won information war by shutting down the Internet - opinion


First Israeli sovereign cloud launched amid rise in information economy

By definition, other countries don't have access to the data that's in each sovereign cloud, and it's not subject to their laws.

Calling in a Cloud

Passover: Trapped in freedom

Passover is perfectly suited for savoring the freedom we sometimes take for granted. In many ways, the modern world embodies the revolution of Passover.

 PASSOVER IS also a moment to scrutinize freedom’s latent dangers.

Russia declares World Wildlife Fund and others 'foreign agents' - report

According to a Russian Justice Ministry release released to Interfax, the WWF received support from foreign sources.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) leader Leonid Slutsky at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia February 13, 2023.

AI and its implications for copyright -opinion

It is clear that for the machine to write or draw anything, it needs access to existing information, documents, research, drawings, pictures, etc.

 Artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT are changing the world (Illustrative).

‘Scary time for Israeli democracy’: experts alarmed at threatened closure of public broadcaster

Media world hits back at plans to cut state funding for Kan as communications minister says ‘no place for public broadcasting in Israel’; academic warns country may be heading down ‘dangerous path.’

 Members of the Israeli media protest at a busy intersection in downtown Tel Aviv over the govenrment's plans to cut funding to the national public broadcaster, Jan. 29, 2023.

Self-censorship and its discontents - comment

I stopped by my student’s desk to see how her research was coming along. No stranger to the endless goldmine of internet mis/information, she was busy at work.

book censorship

Does Israel's military censor balance democracy and security correctly?

The chief military censor today is Brig.-Gen. Doron Ben Barak, who previously served as the deputy military advocate-general and someone who is well acquainted with human rights and civil liberties.

 AN ISRAELI F-15 takes part in an international aerial training exercise in October at the Uvda Air Force Base.

A writer's experience with cancel culture

While there is a lot of horrible language that deserves to be challenged and even canceled, it has created a climate of fear for writers like me.

 THE WRITER at the newspaper he  worked at during and after high  school.

High Court rules PMO must hand over 2015 expenditure invoices

The High Court ruled that the Prime Minister's Office would have 90 days to hand the NGO 220 previously unreleased invoices from the famous residence on Balfour Street in Jerusalem.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu boarding the plane to Athens

Think tank urges greater transparency in government decision-making

The entity responsible for deciding which government meetings would be transparent and which would remain classified for 30 years - is the government itself.

Israel Katz chats with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting