GPS jamming wreaks havoc for Israelis using location apps

[Hol]

Numerous drivers in central Israel report that navigation apps like Waze, Google Maps and the taxi pickup app Gett are suddenly showing their locations in places they are definitely not—including as far away as Beirut, Lebanon.

Other GPS-reliant services such as the Wolt delivery platform are sometimes exhibiting the same bizarre location errors, falsely placing couriers in areas like Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Israel Hayom reported.
The disruptions appear to be an extension of the IDF’s ongoing GPS jamming operations in the north amid heightened conflict with Hezbollah in that region.

However, the Israeli military has yet to comment on the situation.

“I was trying to navigate to a meeting in Petach Tikvah, but Waze had me supposedly driving around downtown Beirut,” Tel Aviv resident Yuval Barak said. “I restarted the app several times but it kept showing me in Lebanon.”

GPS jamming wreaks havoc for Israelis using location apps

The jamming comes days after the Israeli-attributed assassination of an Iranian general in Damascus.

www.jns.org

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Yet another reason one should have hard-copy maps and know the areas in which one lives, works, frequents, etc.

Smart-phones, GPS, etc. are making people stupid and reliant on fallible, vulnerable electronics
It started with bag phones, Palm Plots/similar, flip phones, etc.
Generations past might have said it started with the telegraph and A. G. Bell's infernal invention. And Edison's endless electric gadgets.

Applying the principle to the Bible, one should have hard-copy Bible(s) (and hymnal(s), etc.) and know by memory at least the most important parts

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Numerous drivers in central Israel report that navigation apps like Waze, Google Maps and the taxi pickup app Gett are suddenly showing their locations in places they are definitely not—including as far away as Beirut, Lebanon.

Other GPS-reliant services such as the Wolt delivery platform are sometimes exhibiting the same bizarre location errors, falsely placing couriers in areas like Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Israel Hayom reported.
The disruptions appear to be an extension of the IDF’s ongoing GPS jamming operations in the north amid heightened conflict with Hezbollah in that region.

However, the Israeli military has yet to comment on the situation.

“I was trying to navigate to a meeting in Petach Tikvah, but Waze had me supposedly driving around downtown Beirut,” Tel Aviv resident Yuval Barak said. “I restarted the app several times but it kept showing me in Lebanon.”

GPS jamming wreaks havoc for Israelis using location apps

The jamming comes days after the Israeli-attributed assassination of an Iranian general in Damascus.

www.jns.org

Beruit isn't that far, especially by U.S. and Canadian standards and experience.

 

[Bethlehem57]

Yet another reason one should have hard-copy maps and know the areas in which one lives, works, frequents, etc.

Smart-phones, GPS, etc. are making people stupid and reliant on fallible, vulnerable electronics
It started with bag phones, Palm Plots/similar, flip phones, etc.
Generations past might have said it started with the telegraph and A. G. Bell's infernal invention. And Edison's endless electric gadgets.

Applying the principle to the Bible, one should have hard-copy Bible(s) (and hymnal(s), etc.) and know by memory at least the most important parts

Have heard many say that about hard copy Bibles, hymnals, commentaries , etc., as well and it makes really good sense! Working on memorization, but my 66 year old brain is rebellious, as in can’t remember why I walked into one room of my house. Now why did I come in here..?