Government Approves National Policy For Safe Identification

Israel's government recently set forth a decision approving the key points of a national "safe identification" policy. The purpose of this policy is to define how a person's identity is to be verified when receiving government services in a digital mode, in order to improve the services being provided to residents, and to simplify the access to these services.

 The setting of a national "safe identification" policy derives from the absence of a uniform approach toward the identification process required to receive services in digital space. This absence has resulted in a bureaucratic burden, both for the recipients of services and for service providers. Recipients of services are caused inconvenience and wasted time due to the need to identify themselves to service providers in different ways and to recall a multitude of usernames and passwords. At the same time, service providers are unable to take advantage of their resources logically and are often barred from