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Missile battery and IDF bases: Aerial photographs of sensitive facilities were exposed on the Haifa Municipality website
A facility of a secret security body, a moderator used by the Air Force and communications infrastructure are just some of the number of prohibited photography facilities that could be seen in the photo database.
In response to a Walla!
NEWS, The municipality has blocked access to photographs, which are also in the possession of a foreign company.
IDF Spokesman: No sensitive locations were revealed
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Yoav Itiel
Thursday, 22 October 2020, 08:46
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Aerial photographs of sensitive facilities were visible to the public on the Haifa Municipality website, although they are marked with signs prohibiting photography.
Following Walla!
NEWS, The municipality blocked access to photos yesterday (Tuesday).
It was also revealed that the photos are also in the possession of a foreign company that assisted the engineering director in the city in setting up the database.
Until the application, on the website open to surfers in Israel and around the world, aerial photographs could be found and the exact location of the facilities could be calculated, including a surface-to-air missile battery deployed in the city, an installation of a secret security body , Parked helicopters and planes, fuel tank farms and more.
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The photos are also in the possession of a foreign company.
Security body facility (Photo: Haifa Municipality website)
Sign outside the secret facility (Photo: Haifa Municipality website)
An on-site inspection revealed that the facilities were guarded, surrounded by fences and clearly marked with "No photography" signs.
An IDF source stressed that the photo was forbidden, as was the security body to which the facility seen in the photos is associated. The
director of engineering in the Haifa municipality set up the database with the help of external private companies. , Which have also been obscured in the past, are exposed to the eyes of any high resolution.
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Air Force Technical School (Photo: Haifa Municipality website)
Patriot battery (Photo: Haifa Municipality website)
The responsibility for controlling the photographs that go up to the web, and to the engineering sites of the local authorities in particular, remains vague.
Satellite images that are blurred in some repositories are available for viewing on other sites.
The tank farm of the 1957 company, for example, was censored on the municipality's website, and remains exposed in Google's maps.
A sign prohibiting photography on the Patriot Battery website (Photo: Haifa Municipality website)
The IDF spokesman stated that "the photos on the Haifa Municipality website did not reveal sensitive IDF locations, the air defense battery in the photos is permanently located in Haifa and its location is visible." The
GSS contacted the Haifa Municipality, and the municipality said that " "Like other authorities by an external supplier who is obligated to censor the material in accordance with the chief censor's instructions. Following your request, access to all the photographs was blocked until after the end of the examination."
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