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A little OT, but when I looked for this settlement of Tekoa on GMaps I noticed that nowadays most of Israel itself is not blurred out anymore once you zoom in. I certainly remember that to be the case until not that long ago.

Some locations/places are still blurred, such as Ashdod, but Tel Aviv is now mostly "clean" on higher levels of zoom.




There is a US law limiting the resolution American companies are allowed to use in sat imagery of Israel. It was changed in 2020.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyl%E2%80%93Bingaman_Amendme...




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