On the 14th of March, the Israeli government suffered a DDoS attack that affected several government sites, including the Justice and Welfare, Health, and Interior Ministry websites. According to Haaretz, the Israeli daily, a source within the Israeli defense stated that the cyber-attack is perhaps the largest the country has ever witnessed.

Israel's National Cyber Directorate said on Twitter, "In the past few hours, a DDoS attack against a communications provider was identified. As a result, access to several websites, among them government websites, was denied for a short time. As of now, all of the websites have returned to normal activity."

However, the internet watchdog organization NetBlocks did state that later on the day of the attack, the websites were indeed accessible inside Israel but "unreachable internationally."

This was confirmed by AFP journalists who, just after 2000 GMT, tried to reach several government sites, including the National Cyber Directorate website but found them inaccessible.... Read More: Arutz-7