further note in their preliminary response that it is the estimation of the security agencies that a significant part of the terrorist activity perpetrated in the course of the “knife intifada” beginning in October 2015 was influenced by increasing consumption of social-network contents that incited violence and terror. This led to a need to act to reduce exposure to those publications on internet platforms by reporting to the internet platform operators that they amounted to prima facie criminal offences and deviated from the platform’s Terms of Use. 14. In addition, it was explained that the Department also operates in the area of harm to minors, in cooperation with the National Child Online Protection Bureau, when it reports instances of violence and crime against children and youths (that amount to prima facie offenses of threats, sexual harassment, and infringement of privacy) on the internet to the internet platform operators. According to what was submitted, the Cyber Department also sends reports in regard to sexual images and videos that constitute prima facie offenses under the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Law, 5758-1988. 15. Another area in which the Cyber Department operates is the prevention and restriction of harmful advertising that amounts to prima facie offenses of threats, infringement of privacy, or harassment of “certain types” of civil servants, where the advertisements can potentially deter the civil servants from exercising their authority and perform their duties, as part of the defensive shield that the state affords its employees, and when required for the proper functioning of the civil service. The Respondents noted that the Cyber Department acts with “great restraint” in this area, in view of the importance of public accountability of civil servants and the civil service in general. Thus, reports in this area are sent only in “the most extreme cases”, and at times, only after obtaining the consent of the State Attorney and given the existence of a real threat of harm to the public interest and the proper functioning of the civil service (we should note here that in all that relates to harmful publications against judges, the Courts Administration established Procedure 12-2019 of the Administrator of the Courts in the matter of “Work Procedures and Supervision for Treating Harmful Publications on the Internet” (2019), which is intended to promote, in cooperation with the Cyber Department, the removal or restriction of content that amounts to danger, humiliation, debasement, or harm to holders of judicial appointments (contempt of court constitutes an offense under sec. 255 of the Penal Law).