
Aaron’s Tomb near Petra, Jordan. (CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia)
Aaron’s Tomb near Petra, Jordan. (CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia)
An Ultra-orthodox man prays at the scene of an attack in the ultra-Orthodox Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem on November 18, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ JACK GUEZ)
Christian pilgrims at a Feast of Tabernacles event at Jerusalem’s Pais Arena. October 13, 2014. (Courtesy ICEJ)
A trail of smoke is seen as a rocket is launched from the Palestinian Gaza Strip towards southern Israel Photo: Jack Guez/AFP
Moroccan Parliament building in Rabat (photo credit: Treasury Tag/Wikimedia Commons)
A sample ‘smart’ biometric ID card of the sort that will be issued to replace existing cards in the coming years (photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Flash 90)
Nearly four years after the Knesset passed a law authorizing it, a public “beta test” of Israel’s biometric database system was launched on Monday.
Residents of the central Israeli town of Rishon Lezion were invited to trade in their current Israeli identity cards for a new “smart card” that will digitally encode not only their personal information, but also their fingerprints, photo, and facial profile (the contours and other details of the face). The government will study the results of the voluntary pilot program, searching out glitches and problems in the system before it becomes mandatory — according to plans, in two years.
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