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The final report in the NSO case stated: no illegal use was made of the "Pegasus" software - voila! news

2022-08-01T13:59:22.691Z


The conclusions of the Merri Commission show that the police did not use the spy software without a court order against the targets whose names were published in the media. However, the inspection team found deficiencies in the work of the police in relation to the use of wiretapping devices


The final report in the NSO case stated: no illegal use was made of the "Pegasus" software

The conclusions of the Merri Commission show that the police did not use the spy software without a court order against the targets whose names were published in the media.

However, the inspection team found deficiencies in the work of the police in relation to the use of wiretapping devices

Bini Ashkenazi

01/08/2022

Monday, August 01, 2022, 5:10 p.m

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On video: hundreds of protesters in the Hama Square demanding the establishment of a commission of inquiry in the NSO case (Photo: Niv Aharonson)

From the conclusions of the final report of the Marry Commission on the NSO case, it appears today (Monday) that no indication was found that the Israel Police made an intrusion without a judicial warrant into the mobile phones of the targets whose names were published in the media, using the "Pegasus" software, as claimed.



However, the inspection team found deficiencies in the work of the Israel Police in relation to the use of wiretapping devices.

The report shows that over the years, the decision makers in the police did not attribute the full significance required to the scope of the potential capabilities of the system used to listen to communications between computers.

It was found that prohibited materials were received from mobile phones into the police systems, even though the system was activated after obtaining judicial orders.

This is because the systems were not technologically adapted to the powers of the police.

Although, according to police procedures, these prohibited substances must not be used, there is actually an exception to their authority.



This, after about six months ago the investigation team in the wiretapping case led by Amit Marari, the deputy legal advisor to the government (criminal), announced today (Monday) that there are no indications of using the Pegasus software without a judicial order.

The Ministry of Justice stated that according to the information passed on to the team, there are warrants for eavesdropping on communications between computers for three of the people who appeared on the published list, with regard to two of them, according to the team's findings, an infection attempt was indeed made, and only one of the two for whom the infection order was successful.

One of the offices of the NSO company (Photo: Reuters)

The committee informed that the inspection was also carried out in relation to another system that was put into use recently, and in its case there was also no indication that there was any infection or attempted infection to the mobile phones of any of the published people.

They also emphasized that an in-depth technological test was carried out in the Pegasus system and in the additional system also in relation to the mobile phone devices that were in the possession of the three former general managers of the government ministries whose names were published, among other things using data transferred by them following the request of the team for the purpose of these tests.



According to Calcalist's disclosure at the time, the police planted the spy software without opening an investigation and without legal authorization for it.

Among those "infected" with the software, a Walla! journalist, former Walla! CEOs Ilan Yeshua and Aviram Elad, Stella Handler, former CEO of Bezeq, Iris Elovich, the spouse of the former controlling owner of Bezeq, former CEOs of the Ministry of Finance, Karen Turner, and Shay Bab D, businessman Rami Levy, Emi Palmore, former director general of the Ministry of Justice, Yair Katz, chairman of the Aerospace Industries Workers' Committee and son of MK Haim Katz, former CEOs of the Ministry of Communications, Avi Berger and Shlomo Filber, Dodo Mizrahi, CEO Bezeq, Avner Netanyahu, son of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu's advisors Yonatan Urich and Topaz Luke, Yoram Simhon, head of the council of Mbasret Zion, Miriam Fierberg, mayor of Netanya, Motti Sasson, mayor of Holon, and Yaakov Peretz, mayor of Kiryat Ata.

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The Wiretapping Review Committee: There is no proof of using the Pegasus software without a court order

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