The Israeli Prime Number Minister's Cerise Phone

(Updated: Dec 29, 2015)

Based upon pop culture, many people intend both the US together with Russian presidents convey a carmine telephone on their desks, every bit part of the famous Hotline betwixt both countries. In a previous article nosotros showed that the Washington-Moscow Hotline is non fifty-fifty a telephone line, allow lonely in that location are carmine phones at both ends. But, every bit nosotros tin move come across inward the moving painting below, the prime number government minister of Isreal does convey a carmine telephone on his desk:

Israeli prime number government minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) together with defence
government minister Ehud Barak gibe talks inward the prime number minister's office
(Photo: Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry/Flash90, Nov 2012)

The night grayish telephone at the right, which Netanyahu is using, is a high-end used at the NSA headquaters together with at the part of the British prime number minister. Nortel was a big Canadian telephone equipment manufacturer, but was dissolved inward 2009. The Enterprise Voice together with Data partition of Nortel was bought past times the US telecommications society Avaya (formerly Lucent)

The carmine telephone seems to live on a telephone from the UD-series of the Taiwanese manufacturer Uniphone, but remarkable is that it has no cord! That makes it looks similar this telephone was placed in that location to a greater extent than similar a prop, demonstrating the (military/nuclear) ability of the Israeli prime number minister.

However that may be, inward the video below nosotros instruct an e'er closer await at the carmine telephone set. There it sits side past times side to 2 dark phones, 1 used past times Netanyahu for calling the Russian president:

Israeli prime number government minister Netanyahu calling the Russian prime number government minister Vladimir Putin
thanking for Russia's assistance inward fighting the burn downward inward Israel's North
(December 3, 2010)

The apartment dark telephone is the Telrad Executive Phone 79-100-0000 from the Israeli telecom equipment manufacturer Telrad. This telephone tin move likewise live on seen at the sitting corner of the prime number minister's part together with inward the part of the defence minister. Therefore that telephone must live on part of the internal somebody branch central (PBX) organization of both ministries. At to the lowest degree at the desk of the prime number government minister they were replaced past times the Nortel M3904 past times Nov 2012.

It's non clear what the carmine telephone is for, but a probable pick is that it's connected to a armed services command together with command telephone network, simply similar the Defense Red Switch Network (DRSN) inward the United States, for which long agone likewise carmine telephone sets were used.

> See also: Another "red phone" for the Israeli prime number minister

Update:
On Dec 29, 2015, The Wall Street Journal reported nigh NSA's spying activities against Israel, maxim that they had "a cyber implant inward Israeli networks that gave the NSA access to communications inside the Israeli prime number minister’s office".