Why the tapes on Israeli PM Netanyahu's mobile phone camera?
India Today
An image of Israeli Prime Minister Benjami Netanyahu using a mobile with tapes on the camera has sparked curiosity and questions. It is known that phone cameras can be hacked to spy. People are asking if the PM of Israel, a country with access to critical spying and anti-hacking software, has to tape phones, how safe are common folks.
Israel is renowned for its cyber warfare and cybersecurity prowess. From Mossad’s sabotage of Hezbollah communication devices, from blasting pagers, to rigged walkie-talkies and mobile phones, to its Pegasus spyware capable of remotely surveilling any smartphone, it is a long list. Yet Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, still feels the need to tape his phone camera. Recent images of Netanyahu's taped phone camera have sparked curiosity, and questions too.
If the PM of a country with one of the most formidable capabilities in cyberspace operations cannot trust that his phone cannot be hacked, how can common folk rest easy without being sure some 'Big Brother' is not spying on them through their own mobile devices?
As one user wrote, "If someone like Netanyahu, surrounded by Shin Bet, Mossad, military-grade counter-intel is walking around with a physically blocked camera on a device which is already running on proprietary software. If elites who control states don’t trust their own phones, what makes you think yours is safe?"
"Why does Netanyahu have tape over his phone camera? Who's he worried about? Also if the Prime Minister of Israel feels the need to do it, then what does that mean for the average person," asked investor and influencer Mario Nawfal on X.
Remember, we are talking about Israel, whose National Cyber Directorate handled over 26,000 cyber incidents in 2025.
While we do not know the exact reason Netanyahu keeps his phone camera taped up, we do know that mobile phone cameras can be remotely hacked and operated without the owner's knowledge. The process known as camfecting.
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