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On November 14, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced a bilateral cybersecurity partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Finance “to protect critical financial infrastructure and emerging technologies” and combat the use of ransomware. The initiative includes the launch of a U.S.-Israeli Task Force on Fintech Innovation and Cybersecurity (the “Task Force”), which seeks to advance the twin goals of encouraging fintech innovation while protecting against cyber threats from nation-state and criminal actors.
Continue Reading U.S. Department of the Treasury Announces Partnership with Israel to Combat Ransomware

Haim Ravia and Dotan Hammer of Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz recently published an article outlining Israel’s new Protection of Privacy Regulations, passed by the Knesset on March 21, 2017. The Regulations will impose mandatory comprehensive data security and breach notification requirements on anyone who owns, manages or maintains a database containing personal data in Israel.
Continue Reading Israel Passes Comprehensive Data Security and Breach Notification Regulations

Reporting from Israel, legal consultant Dr. Omer Tene writes about an important recent decision in which an Israeli court upholds the validity of an instruction issued by the data protection regulator restricting financial institutions from using information about a third party’s attachment of their client’s account for the financial institution’s own purposes.
Continue Reading Israeli Court Upholds DPA’s Authority to Issue Market Instructions

On October 24, 2011, Israel’s Data Protection Authority announced significant developments in its sophisticated investigation of a complex cyber security breach that affected more than nine million Israeli citizens.
Continue Reading Israeli Justice Ministry Announces Breakthrough in Information Theft Case

Legal consultant Dr. Omer Tene reports that last week, the Israeli National Labor Court issued an opinion requiring employers to set forth clear policies with respect to employee use of computers and communications systems in the workplace. The Court distinguished between the monitoring of business email accounts, personal email accounts and “mixed” email accounts, and expressed reservations concerning the validity of employee consent in the monitoring context.
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Continue Reading Israeli National Labor Court Severely Restricts Employee Monitoring