Fighting the coronavirus contagion, the government has introduced extremely intrusive tracking. Now it wants to bring in the NSO Group, a company accused of human rights violations

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

Lawmakers oppose idea to give contentious private spy firm access to personal data; Shin Bet, tasked with monitoring carriers, says it's not giving information to Defense Ministry

Israeli developers working on applications to track spread of COVID-19, while country's largest hospital makes strides with telemedicine to protect staff

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

Prime Minister's Office confirms operation, but refuses to say where the equipment was purchased

But justices warn permission for use of cell data to help stem virus spread and enforce quarantine orders will be rescinded if regulatory legislation not advanced soon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

Officials deny claim that equipment, brought to Israel by the spy agency from an undisclosed country, did not answer the needs of the medical system