Plan to introduce biometric IDs stirs privacy debate - Haaretz - Israel News
Haaretz reports: "No other democracy has yet introduced biometric identity cards, which Israel recently decided to do, and the only nondemocracy to have done so is Hong Kong, according to a study by the Knesset's research center."

Comment: Israel is leading the way in national adoption of biometric identity cards, let's see how far privacy and human rights groups get in scuttling the law.