6.4 Million Israelis Data Exposed By Netanyahu’s Party
Princesa Landes
A misconfiguration in an election day app developed by Likud, the party of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, may have potentially exposed and compromised the personal details of almost 6,5 million Israeli citizens.
It is unclear if the exposed server and data was harvested by unauthorized parties before Bar-Zik's discovery and public disclosure. Local Israeli media like Haaretz, Calcalist, and Ynet confirmed Bar-Zik's findings.
Bar-Zik explained that he discovered the huge trove of data while was performing a security audit of the Elector app developed by Elector Software for Likud, the Israeli political party led prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Localities which collect less revenue from local taxes rely more on funding from the central government. Here too, Israeli authorities allocate budgets in a discriminatory fashion. For example, of the 2.82 billion NIS ($804 million) of economic recovery funds handed out by the Israeli government to local authorities in April 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic, only 1.7 percent went to Palestinian municipalities, according to Adalah.[620] In education, the Israeli government operates two separate school systems, one for Jewish children and one for Palestinian children in Israel.[621] Discrimination colors every aspect of the two systems; often overcrowded and understaffed, poorly built or maintained, state schools for Palestinian children offer fewer facilities and educational opportunities than what are offered to Jewish Israeli children.[622] The Haifa-based rights group Mossawa Center found based on government data that, in 2013, the annual expenditure per student in Palestinian localities was 734 NIS ($220), as compared to 3,344 NIS ($1,004) in poor Jewish localities and 5,934 NIS ($1,781) in wealthier Jewish ones.[623] Citing government data for that same school year, Haaretz found that expenditures by the state for Jewish Israeli high school students were 35 to 68 percent higher than for Palestinian students at the same socioeconomic level.[624]
Bennett, who is routinely described as a young, charismatic leader helping remake his party, is also a multimillionaire businessman and was a former chief of staff to Netanyahu during his time as opposition leader in 2006-2008. Bennett also favors Israeli annexation of a large part of the West Bank. Jodi Rudoren, "Dynamic Former Netanyahu Aide Shifts Israeli Campaign Rightward," New York Times, December 26, 2012.
For most of the last 20 years there has been grumbling withinthe UNGA and UN Security Council for similar reasons as the U.S.continues to remain in monetary arrears. UN spokesperson Farhan Haqrevealed to Reuters that outstanding monies totaled $736.2 millionas of November 2010. Time-sensitive figures from the UN are notalways available; case in point, the Global Policy Forum in NewYork City, a comprehensive source for the UN, issues a disclaimerthat UN data is not always reliable, so one should err on the sideof caution to conclude that this is a rough estimation two yearsout of date.
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