Subcommittee for the Intelligence Services allows controversial program to remain in place for 3 more weeks, less than the 6 weeks the government sought as legislation is drawn up

Subcommittee gives approval until April 30 for domestic spy agency to use mass surveillance program to locate potential coronavirus carriers

Security service defends its contentious tracking program, citing Health Ministry official who credited it with locating potential carriers who otherwise wouldn't have been found

But justices warn permission for use of cell data to help stem virus spread and enforce quarantine orders will be rescinded if regulatory legislation not advanced soon

Request seeks lifting of injunction barring police from using cell data to track and enforce whether Israelis required to do so are staying in mandatory isolation

In temporary injunction, justices give deadlocked parliament until midday Tuesday to establish Subcommittee on Clandestine Services -- or stop tracking Israelis' movements