Anonymous Steps Up Attacks on Israeli Sites.

Hackers stepped up attacks on a number of Israeli Web sites, including Israel’s Foreign Ministry and also the municipal Web site for Tel Aviv.

The attacks are portion of a broader campaign that Anonymous is calling #OpIsrael. The group says the attacks are in retaliation for Israeli military attacks on Hamas on Wednesday.

The actual campaign, which began at 3 a. m. New York time on Thurs — with coordinated attacks on several Israeli Internet sites, including those of an Israeli Defense Forces blog and also a private Israeli surveillance and safety measures company — showed no indications of slowing on Friday.

Through Friday, Anonymous hackers claimed to get defaced more than 600 Israeli Internet sites, many belonging to private companies. They also claimed credit to take down a Tel Aviv municipal site, tel-aviv. gov. il, as well as said, in Twitter posts, that they had deleted the Web listings for Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and also the Bank of Jerusalem.

While your former site was still not offline  Friday afternoon, the latter were functioning normally.