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During "The Guardian of the Walls": Netanyahu agrees to the proposal of the police and the defense establishment to block social networks

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It was learned that the proposal was presented to the Prime Minister during a security discussion at the height of the operation, following the riots in the cities involved.

A senior official in the Ministry of Justice objected and removed from the agenda the proposal, according to which every access to Facebook, Facebook and Instagram is blocked in Israel.

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Sunday, 30 May 2021, 07:04

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Car fire during the riots in Lod, May 12 (Photo: Liran Levy)

The police and the defense establishment have proposed blocking social networks in Israel in the midst of the "wall guard" and the riots in the cities involved - Walla learned!

It also appears that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supported the proposal presented to him during a security debate at the height of the operation, while a senior official from the Ministry of Justice rejected it outright at the same hearing, and dropped it from the agenda.

"It comes from the understanding that social networks have 'heated up' what is happening in the country," the source said in a conversation with Walla!

What was behind the decision to place the proposal before the political and legal echelon.

"Quite a few of the riots were against the background of calls and organizations through Facebook and tic-tac-toe videos that further fueled the atmosphere and inspired those rioters."

The same source said that it was planned to completely disable social networks in Israel - including Facebook, Tic Tac and Instagram - so that there would be no access to them.

Blocking of social networks has never taken place in Israel, and is considered a very unusual step that does not take place in democracies.

More on Walla!

Police arrested an Arab suspect for throwing Molotov cocktails at a Jewish home in Lod

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Netanyahu (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

In the tic-tac-toe videos that led to the wave of violence in Jerusalem, Arabs living in the east of the city documented themselves attacking Jews. The famous video in which he documented the attack on the ultra-Orthodox boy on the light rail in the capital, after which the suspect, a 17-year-old boy from East Jerusalem, escaped and was arrested a few days later by the police at the Qalandiya crossing.

When the proposal was rejected by a senior Justice Department official, the police continued to mobilize unprecedented forces from the Border Police reserve companies, and bring companies from Judea and Samaria to the cities involved.

A senior police officer said in a conversation with Walla !: "We prevented a third intifada in Israel. The intensity of the events and the number of hotspots were not the place of the state. Hundreds of incidents of civilian casualties. "

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