The international hacking group Anonymous and other group of hackers have declared Monday a day of cyber attacks on Israel, but so far have not managed to bring down many websites. Israel's Post Office and the Education Ministry websites were temporarily disabled, and the hackers published an online list of phone numbers belonging to Israeli senior officials.
The Education Ministry website was briefly disabled to deter a serious hit, but after a short time it was back in business. Groups of hackers have published online that they have only managed to crash a few private websites.
The attack was launched by Anonymous and other groups in retaliation for Israeli attacks on Gaza. As part of the organized hacking event, called "OpIsrael", hackers published a list of Israeli government websites and a tool that is supposed to bombard them with artificial requests
