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There are plans all over the world for apps and cards that would prove vaccination. But Israel’s experience suggests major caveats.

O N MARCH 7TH, after six months of selling takeaways, the beer was once more flowing in the pizzeria at Bet Romano in Tel Aviv. The bar and restaurant upstairs were packed. Most patrons carried proof that they had received a double dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, but no one asked to see it. At nearby establishments that were trying harder to verify vaccination status, people queued with pieces of paper and smartphones. These contained authorisations from health-care providers; immunisation certificates from the health ministry; and the “green pass”, a government app that confirms vac...

Follow Feb. 25, 2021 A writer for Haaretz has received anonymous threats against him and his family after he wrote several reports that were critical of Israel’s Health Ministry. The writer, Ran Bar-Zik, writes about cybersecurity for Haaretz’s Hebrew-language edition in the technology and internet culture section, which is called Captain Internet. The Health Ministry condemned the threatening messages and said they would examine the issue. Over the past weeks, Haaretz published a number of stories about the shortcomings and risks of Israel’s digital coronavirus vaccination certificate,...