2 Thursday, March 3, 2016 | Haaretz Analysis Oded Yaron IDF commanders face disciplinary With Waze, your measures over Qalandiyah incident privacy is at risk New research published contradiction of countless on fire. One soldier man- commander of Oketz, who The investigation of the whereabouts of one soldier The soldiers’ vehicle by the Georgia Institute of declarations by the compa- Gili Cohen aged to get to a nearby Jew- holds the rank of lieutenant incident concluded that the were unknown for more was attacked with stones Technology reveals that ny, and its parent, Google. Disciplinary mea- ish settlement while the colonel, and the commander two soldiers who strayed than an hour. and Molotov cocktails, one people will listen to robots Anyone who burrows sures will be taken against other hid in the camp un- of the company involved. into the refugee camp As per the military’s or- of which set it ablaze. The in case of an emergency, into the company’s privacy several commanders in the til he was rescued by IDF Both will receive a notation should not be punished, ders, any soldier traveling soldiers exited the vehicle even if they lead them policy and the long list of Defense Forces elite forces. The two soldiers regarding their conduct in and praised them for their in the must know and split up. One hid in a into dangerous situations. things that Waze permits Oketz unit following an inci- themselves have not been their personnel files and conduct under the circum- the route ahead of time. nearby yard while the other Perhaps the research is itself to do with the infor- dent Monday night, in which disciplined. the deputy company com- stances. The initial inquiry Five IDF soldiers and proceeded toward the Jew- important, but it’s hard to mation it collects will find two soldiers traveling in an Following an army inves- mander has been given a revealed that the pair, an five members of the Border ish settlement of Kochav say that it is surprising. the following clause — the army vehicle took a wrong tigation of the incident in the probationary sentence that army driver and squad com- Police were injured — one Yaakov. The soldier who After all, one incident this only one that can be inter- turn into the Qalandiyah camp, located north of Je- will include jail time if its mander from Oketz, entered moderately — during the remained in the camp had week served as a painful preted as protecting the refugee camp in the West rusalem, chief infantry and terms are violated. The pla- the camp by mistake while nighttime operation to res- a mobile phone, which he reminder of the price we company’s actions: “Waze Bank and were attacked by paratrooper officer Brig. toon commander is being using the Waze GPS naviga- cue the soldiers. One Pales- used to contact his com- pay for putting our trust may use information col- residents. Gen. Yehuda Fox decided stripped of his position and tion app. The two separated tinian, who the army said manders. He also used his in technology and the com- lected from or provided by The soldiers abandoned to discipline a number of sentenced to seven days in after their vehicle was at- was armed, was killed by weapon a number of times, panies that stand behind it. you for the following pur- the vehicle after it was set commanders, including the military detention. tacked in the camp, and the army fire. firing into the air. This is not only about poses: … To take any action the soldiers who mistaken- in any case of dispute, or le- ly entered the Qalandiyah gal proceeding of any kind refugee camp and miracu- between you and the Ser- 2 soldiers stabbed at lously made it out alive. vice, or between you and The soldiers claimed that other users or third parties they were relying on the with respect to, or in rela- W. Bank settlement; traffic app Waze, and the tion with the Service.” application misled them. Attorney Yonatan assailants get away This could have happened Klinger checked if this in many ways: bad GPS re- clause covers the company had been stolen during the ception; misunderstanding in this case, and responded Gili Cohen attack, but they were later the application’s instruc- that it only allows transfer- and Chaim Levinson found at the guard post. tions; or the algorithm ring information to law en- Two Israeli soldiers Apparently, the soldiers deciding that the best way forcement authorities. were stabbed yesterday in didn’t have their guns on passed through Qalandi- an attack by Palestinians them when they were at- yah. However, all of them at a settlement in the north- tacked. touch on matters between ern West Bank, the IDF Meanwhile, an Israeli man and application. Tech- The moment we Spokesman’s Unit said. resident of the West Bank nology, just like people, is One soldier was taken in settlement Eli was light- imperfect, and the connec- were reminded light-to-moderate condition ly wounded in a stabbing tion between the two, even of the danger in by Magen David Adom am- attack yesterday morning. less so. A small glitch in bulance service for further Two Palestinian suspects the matrix, and the results blind reliance on treatment at Beilinson Hos- were shot and killed by Is- can be catastrophic. technology was pital in Petah Tikva. The raeli soldiers after initially The moment we were other soldier was treated at fleeing the scene. reminded of the great dan- when the company the scene by army medics, According to initial re- ger in blind reliance on blamed the soldiers emergency services said. ports, the Palestinians infil- technology, and especially The soldiers were stabbed trated the settlement, locat- those behind it, was when for not following the while guarding at a post ed southeast of Ariel, and the company responded to app’s instructions. at the Har Bracha settle- waited outside of a home journalists — and blamed ment in the northern West with batons and a knife. the soldiers for not follow- Bank, near Nablus, the IDF The Israeli was said to ing the app’s instructions. Spokesperson’s Unit said. have emerged from his “[Waze] includes a spe- Blogger and journalist The assailants fled the house in an Israel Defense cific default setting that Ido Keinan, who also wrote scene, and military forces Forces uniform on his way Soldiers patrolling the West Bank town of Eli after yesterday morning’s attack. prevents routes through about the incident in his were sweeping the area in to report for reserve duty areas which are marked as “Room 404” blog, remarked attempt to locate them. when he was attacked. The Israeli wounded was Palestinian suspect alleged- 21, reportedly confessed to security guard in critical dangerous or prohibited for that the details of the re- A preliminary investi- The wounded reservist taken to Shaare Zedek Med- ly involved in an ax attack the attack during his initial condition as a result of the Israelis to drive through,” sponse shows that Waze gation showed that troops managed to scare off his at- ical Center in for in the West Bank settlement interrogation and was tak- attack. Abu Hamed and the the company said. “In takes the least efficient ap- called to the scene of the tackers, who fled the scene further treatment. of Ma’aleh Adumim on the en in for additional ques- security guard reportedly this case, the setting was proach to protecting user stabbings feared at first before soldiers found them On Sunday, the previous Thursday. tioning. He is suspected of had reportedly been ac- disabled. In addition, the privacy. It protects users’ that the soldiers’ weapons and shot them to death. security service arrested a Sa’adi Ali Abu Hamed, leaving a 47-year-old Israeli quainted. driver deviated from the specific information (as suggested route and, as a it notes in its users agree- result, entered the prohib- ment) without destroying it ited area.” or at least encoding it and Man charged for anti- What’s amazing is that leaving the decoding keys Police ditch sensitivity training Waze answered a question in the users’ hands. that was never asked. In In other words, the next Arab Facebook page the mail I sent, I relied on time you see a screen start- program about Arab society the Facebook post of jour- ing with the words “Waze the slain anti-Arab Rabbi nalist Haim Har-Zahav, in Mobile Limited respects Noa Shpigel Meir Kahane, whose Kach was approved by succes- we asked the police what con- er sad example of how the po- which he mentioned earlier your privacy,” or when Yaniv Kubovich The Northern District movement was banned as sive police commissioners tent they were teaching, and lice relate to the Arab public.” reports, such as those on Google (or its umbrella prosecutor’s office yester- racist by the Israeli govern- The has ter- and public security minis- only then did a police car show The Israel Police, accord- Ynet, that Waze changed group Alphabet) again day filed an indictment in ment. The indictment noted minated its connection with ters. The issue became part up with a request for binders ing to a spokesman, is operat- the navigation settings blames the American gov- Nazareth Magistrate’s Court that the Facebook page was the Abraham Fund, which of the training program for and study materials. This is ing on “a variety of levels to for Israeli users following ernment for risking its us- against an Upper Nazareth active at a time when sever- for 12 years has been oper- police, particularly for pa- sending an important project increase the sense of security the rise in tensions in East ers’ privacy, remember that man who ran an anti-Arab al terrorist murders, along ating a project to promote trol units. According to the down the tubes.” and establish trust in the po- Jerusalem. Har-Zahav the company that belongs to Facebook page, charging with Operation Protective dialogue between Arab Abraham Fund, however, by The Abraham Fund has lice and the rule of law in vari- blamed Waze for changing it did not hesitate for a sec- him with incitement to rac- Edge, took place – a period community leaders and the the summer of 2014 after the conducted yearly study ous segments of the popula- its settings back after pres- ond to throw the privacy ism and violence. of high tension between police, and develop knowl- disturbances in the Arab trips for top police officers tion, and above all in the Arab sure by right-wing politi- of its users out the window The page was called “Naz- Jews and Arabs. “Against edge of the Arab populace sector began following the to various countries to learn sector. More than two years cians like Jerusalem May- the moment it was conve- erenes on Face (Facebook the background of this sen- among police in the field. murder of 16-year-old Mo- about how the local police ago the chief of police at the or Nir Barkat. However, it nient for it do so. And the for Jews only).” The accused, sitive and volatile public According to the Abraham hammed Abu Khdeir, the deal with foreign criminals, time, Yohanan Danino, de- is clear from the text that it next time that you wonder Yedid Bernstein, would post atmosphere, the accused Fund, which has the stated connection with the police minorities and immigrants. cided to change the arrange- claims that the default set- what you have to hide, you anti-Arab content there. The systematically published … aim of building a shared fu- had begun to weaken. Now, Two years ago an Abraham ment with the Abraham Fund tings are supposed to pre- should be reminded that case is being investigated by various items with the aim ture for Israel’s Jewish and precisely when tension be- Fund delegation went to the and focus only on a strategic vent entry into Palestinian even a trivial detail like the the cyber unit of the Israel of inciting to racism and Arab citizens, “As of today, tween the Arab sector and United States with 14 chiefs interface, while making full areas. route of a journey on Waze Police’s Lahav 433 special items that included calls insofar as we know there is the Israel Police is once of police stations in mixed use of the insights obtained The problem is that in can be used against you if investigations team. inciting to violence,” the in- no systematic training in the again at a boiling point, the areas, who received train- through the joint processes. its haste to defend itself you constitute a problem for According to the charge dictment read. Israel Police for policing in a project has been eliminated ing on policing in a multi- The police is continuing to act against accusations that a giant company. sheet, during November Among the posts listed in society that is splintered and from the police curriculum. cultural society. in a significant and extensive it had endangered the sol- Waze was asked yester- and December 2013, and the indictment was one that multicultural.” “They’ve stopped work- In the view of Joint Arab way, including investment of diers, Waze did not hesitate day who permitted it to re- June and July 2014, Ber- read, “Dear Jews, from now The project got under- ing with us formally,” says List chairman MK Ayman many resources, in adapting to reveal private informa- lease private information nstein managed the Face- in Upper Nazareth every way in 2002, at a time when Abraham Fund Co-Executive Odeh, “Shutting down the the organization’s services to tion about the users, in about the soldiers’ use of book page. It had 1,630 fol- Arab who enters gets beaten. the relations between the Director Amnon Be’eri-Sulit- project and the police com- a variety of population seg- contradiction of its own the application. It has yet lowers and its content was I call on you to break every- police and Arab citizens of zeanu. “It began in the days missioner’s silence are anoth- ments.” user agreement, and in to respond. available to the general thing, their car, their iPhone, Israel were at a nadir. The Or of [previous police chief Yo- public. The page’s profile their teeth. Let’s be strong Commission’s report of its hanan] Danino, who said he picture during part of this and not be afraid, if it’s in the inquiry into the clashes that had received a recommenda- time had the slogan “Today mall, in Rosco, Ben-Gurion culminated in the killing by tion to incorporate the fund’s everyone knows: Kahane south, don’t be afraid!!! Let’s police fire of 13 Arab civil- lesson plans into the police Bill on tap to forbid mosques from was right,” a reference to start an intifada of our own!” ians in October 2000 found a school but this would be done string of flaws in police con- without us. Danino left and we duct toward Arab citizens waited for a few months until using public address systems and made recommendations the appointment of the new for changes in the organiza- police chief.” Jonathan Lis tion. Among other things, the Despite Be’eri-Sulitzeanu’s report stated that the police attempts to make contact with The Ministerial Com- see the Arabs in Israel as en- the new police commissioner, mittee for Legislation will emies. The Abraham Fund Roni Alsheikh, he says he has decide Sunday whether to began working with the po- not succeeded in getting the support a bill that would lice at that time to establish police chief’s response on the forbid muezzins from using relations of trust with Arab matter. “There’s no problem mosques’ public address society and develop a new with them doing it on their systems to call their wor- pattern of community-ori- own, but I can say with confi- shippers to prayer. ented policing. dence that today it simply isn’t Although the bill has For 12 years the project happening. A few months ago wide support in Prime Min- ister ’s governing coalition, the legislation is not expected to pass. In recent years re- peated efforts to pass simi- lar bills have failed. “Freedom of religion does not have to be a fac- tor undermining quality of life,” said the bill’s backers Tel Aviv’s Hassan Bek mosque. Tomer Appelbaum in a statement. The legislation was ini- in the center of the country The bill would forbid the the interior minister would tiated by MK Moti Yogev – experience regular daily use of similar PA systems have the right to allow (Habayit Hayehudi) and is suffering from the noise by all houses of worship their use on an individual supported by other Knesset resulting from the muez- of all religions, although basis. members from his party, zin calls in the mosques,” along with MKs Miki Zo- the bill’s explanatory notes har and Nurit Koren of Li- say. Correction kud and Merav Ben Ari of “This noise stems from Kulanu. the use of a PA system that Due to a translation error, Malcolm Turnbull was “Hundreds of thousands disturbs the other residents described in an article by Barak Ravid (“After snub, of Israelis – in the , several times a day, includ- Rivlin calls Australian president,” March 2) as the the Negev, Jerusalem, Tel ing in the early morning Australian president. He is the prime minister. Aviv-Jaffa and other areas hours and at night.”