Back in January 2014, Waze, an Israeli startup offering crowdsourced traffic information was snapped up by Google for a cool $1 billion. It was another milestone on the arc of Israeli technological prowess.
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Millions of drivers around the world rely on its easy interface for optimized routes and directions steering them clear of major traffic tie-ups. Even, it turns out, the most élite of élite fighters, who are trained to navigate with maps.
Late Monday night a Palestinian man was killed in the Qalandia refugee camp outside Ramallah after two two Israeli Special forces (Oketz Unit) soldiers enter Qalandiya in an unarmored military vehicle after getting lost en route from the nearby Israeli settlement of Beit El to their base.
According to Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon they apparently traversed the checkpoint that serves as the principal entrance to the camp, then mistakenly continued “because they were relying on the Waze navigation app, which reportedly caused them to turn towards the Palestinian town of Al-Ram.
A nerve-wracking hour, during which rioting and exchanges of fire took place as Qalandia residents feared an IDF invasion.