Israel's State Comptroller found four municipalities' enforcement cameras retained identifiable footage and lacked clear legal authority.
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A State Comptroller report dated June 2026 examined municipal use of cameras to enforce traffic and parking laws in Herzliya, Hadera, Ramat Gan and Binyamina-Giv'at Ada. The four authorities operated about 189 cameras that led to roughly 121,000 citations in 2024, worth about NIS 44 million. Comptroller Matanyahu Englman found, as reported by The Yeshiva World, that some municipalities retained high-resolution footage capable of identifying pedestrians and bystanders, kept recording public areas after enforcement ended, did not publish required enforcement policies, and in some cases reused parking cameras for security without clear legal authority. The report follows a December 2025 court ruling and an April 2026 Privacy Protection Authority determination that license-plate-recognition cameras may not be used for ordinary parking enforcement without explicit legislation.
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