A petition to stop BYOD program was submitted today to the Israeli Supreme Court

Today 10/09/2015, an appeal to stop BYOD(Bring Your Own Device to school) program was submitted today to the Israeli Supreme Curt. The appeal was submitted in the name of more then 100 parents, including Knesset member, Professor Yossi Yona and Israel Prize winner for Education, Professor Gavriel Salomon.
The ministry of education, after deploying WIFI in schools, try to deploy tablets in schools using the BYOD project in which parents are asked to buy their kids a wireless tablet that will be used daily in the class. Groups of parents across the country have raised their voices against the program. Now after a year of public activity they submited a petition to the Supreme Court.
The petitioners ask the court to stop the to BYOD program because of moral, social, equality, discrimination, pedagogical, health(screen time and exposure to radiation) reasons and a violation of the law of "books lending program"( a law that allow parents to get all the books their kid needs for just under $100, and that the BYOD program makes absolute as the parents are asked to buy a tablet that with insurance and digital books sums up to more than $300).


In the pictures bellow the representatives of the petitioners and Knesset member, Professor Yossi Yona in the Supreme Court with the petition.

WIFI in Israeli schools supreme court case - update 08-2014

Attorney Michael Bach and Attorney Dafna Tachover asked the Israeli supreme court to issue an intermediate injunction  to stop the use and deployment of WIFI in Israeli schools.

The requests were issued to the court, on 31/07/2014 by Attorney Michael Bach , and on 14/08/2014 by Attorney Dafna Tachover. The state is future to submit it's replay until the 26/08/2014.
The requests where submitted after the Ministry of Education submitted it's replay to the court's conditional injunction that was issues at 19/04/2014 by the supreme court.

Please note that I am not an Attorney or a legal specialist and the report below was done according to my knowledge and to my best effect. For more info please contact Attorney Michael Bach and Attorney Dafna Tachover 

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Attorney Michael Bach based his request on the changing behavior and tactics of the Education ministry before and during the procedure to create the apparently that it is deploying wired internet while in the field only WIFI was being deployed and use. First the ministry claimed it is deploying wired internet. Then, according to the court request, it presented data from the field showing that mostly, if not only, WIFI is being deployed. Later on the Ministry of education reported to the court that it had no time yet to enforce it's recommendations regarding the deployment of wired internet asking more time to do so. Now, the ministry changed it's approach and recommendations claiming that wired internet connections are dangerous, and in order to allow pedagogic flexibility, WIFI will be used as long as the levels of radiation will be bellow the Israeli standard (10% of ICNIRP). In addition Attorney Michael Bach explained to the court that the data that the ministry of education presented the court was not reflecting the situation in the field and that actually none of the schools were installed with wired internet.

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Attorney Dafna Tachover supported Attorney Michael Bach's request and submitted more evidence  supporting his claims. In addition Attorney Dafna Tachover criticized the handing of the EHS issue by the state mainly the report of the state that was submitted with the Ministry of Education last reply that determined that none of the kids that were hurt in schools from the RF radiation in Israel were actually EHS.
The report was issue by the Ministry of health and described the symptoms that the kids as none specific to and unrelated to EMF exposure and conducted that the number of kids in the school that was in question that reported the symptoms was higher than expected in the case of EHS.
Attorney Dafna Tachover submitted studies and reference in order to show the court that what the kids were suffering from was caused by the exposure to the RF radiation, partially from the WIFI routers and wireless PC and which made it impossible for them to study in a WIFI enabled environment. An affidavit written by M.D. Beler, the physician that checked the some of the kids, from the Rishon Negba school, and which  concluded they suffer from the RF radiation, was submitted to the court.

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The state (Ministry of Education) should file in it's replay to the requests until the 26/08/2014.
Next hearing is scheduled to 11/02/2015

A petition to remove "Section 34" of the "Pergola Law", that ease adding cellphone antennas to existing masts, in Israeli Supreme Court"

This week a petition was filled to the Israeli Supreme court in order to delay or to remove section 34 of the "Pergola Law" which will make it very easy to the cellphone companies to add antennas to an already existing antenna site/mast, without giving the public a right to resist the installation.

The petition was filed by attorney Michael which represents the "Forum for sane cellphone use".

The petition asks that section 34 of the pergolas will be removed or alternatively delay it's implementation  until the Supreme Court decision on the issue.


The Reasons for the petition:

1. Section 34 come in conflict with the Israeli non-ionizing radiation law
2. The "Pergolas Law" discussed the issue of light construction and should not interfere with the issues of establishing cellular antennas. 
3. Installation is in contrary to the temporary order of  the Supreme Court on "wireless access devices". 
4. Section 34 that deals with cellphone antennas was "hide" in-between other sections of the law which  related to building permits. 
5. Violation of civil rights to oppose cellular antennas that will lead to the establishment of thousands of additional antennas without public consent.

What does section 34 allow? 

Cellphone companies will be able to add new cellphone antenna to an existing site using an expedited procedure of approval, without the possibility of the local authority or the public to resist the installation.
As a result, people who live opposite the existing antennas site (mast) will wake-up one morning and will see new antennas in front of their houses, that emit  more and more frequencies, that will radiate them throughout the day.
It will also allow the cellular companies to install and make infrastructure changes to the roof and the building on which the antennas are installed on, such as new fences (that hide the antenna) or new power transmission lines to the antennas, or massive air condition systems that cool off the antenna equipment room.


What will change because of section 34? 

In the past eight years, mobile operators install their antennas, using a law breach, inside small 80X50X30 boxs, calling them "wireless access devices". Using this law breach they were not obligated to inform the public about any future installation and the public had no way to resist. This conflict the "Israeli non-ionizing radiation law and caused thousands of victims of antennas that one morning wake-up having new cellphone antennas installed next to their homes, without their ability to resist the installation.

In 2008 a petition was submitted to the supreme court which claimed that the breach was not meant for cellphone antennas and that cellphone companies should not install cellphone antennas as  "wireless access devices".

Lately, after more than six years of legal activity to close the loophole, and when it seems that the Israeli Attorney General and the Supreme Court understood that cellular companies should not and could not use the loophole, the cellphone companies seems to have found an other way to install cellphone antennas without going through all the necessary procedure and to safe time and money on the back of the public.

Now, the Minister of internal affairs, Ms Gidon Sa'ar,  seems to have sold-out the public to the cellular companies and inserted section 34 of the "Pergola Law" that will  allow the cellphone companies to add new cellphone antennas to an existing. For example, if there is a mast of one cellphone company, the 4 other cellphone companies will be able to add their own sets of antenna on to this mast with very short legal procedure and without knowing the public. The public which lives or work next to the mast will be exposed to more broadcasters in more frequencies and to more lobes of RF radiation.

The cellphone companies will have to get the approval of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, but his opinion is based only on a "Thermal" standard and on lack of understanding of the biological effect of RF radiation. Have no doubt, the radiation from the antennas is not healthy and so is the radiation mobile wireless equipment.

Section 34 is a fraud!