The Times of Israel website on Thursday, 13 Cheshvan 5778, joined the Israeli websites penetrated by hackers.

Israel�s Cyber Bureau, the IDF and other intelligence agencies continues working and allocating exorbitant sums of money as hackers around the world remain tenacious in efforts to down government and non-government websites and computer systems towards perpetrating a cyber-attack in Israel � to bring a halt to normal life by disrupting the internet and in some cases, critical services that are provided by computers systems.

Israel remains a leader in the field and the counter-cyberterrorism efforts continue to remain a high priority for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his coalition government.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)