All that you need to know about using VPN in Israel

Every Internet user leaves a lot of personal information during usual day-to-day online activity. Whether you know it or not, this data can be used in a variety of ways. Companies track, collect and analyze your habits to deliver targeted ads, or to show content based on location. The government carries out surveillance by using personal data to predict your behavior and to control you better. Internet Service Providers (ISP) monitor and record your Internet activity for their own purposes. And also cybercriminals use it to break into your online accounts or devices. All these security problems can be solved with a virtual private network. VPN helps to hide your location, bypass geographical restrictions and encrypt data.

When you turn on a VPN and connect to the Internet, requests from your device go to websites through an encrypted private tunnel to the VPN server. In this case, all your online activity, links you click, files you download, are almost untraceable.

All devices connected to the Internet are assigned a unique IP address, which contains information about the user's geographic location, ISP name, etc. An Israel VPN hides your actual IP address and makes it look like you have accessed the Internet from the country where the VPN server is located. It's one of the reasons why you have to choose a premium VPN instead of a free one. Free VPN Israel service providers usually can’t allow their customers a choice of servers in a large number of different countries.

The limited choice of available VPN servers is a significant, but not the biggest disadvantage of free VPN services. Free VPNs, known for their lack of security, log personal data and sell it to cover development and support costs. Using premium trustworthy VPNs doesn’t cost a lot, but it guarantees your anonymity, safety, and privacy of personal data.

Using VPNs is legal in the majority of countries and in Israel as well. However, illegal Internet activity while using the VPN is still illegal. To stay on the safe side you should obey the laws of the country you’re located in.

Encryption and rerouting connection through the VPN server may affect connection speed. VPN speed testing helps to understand the extent of this influence. Premium VPN users will notice the difference only in situations when something requires intensive bandwidth. For example, online multiplayer games.

The geographical limitation is a nasty thing that every Internet user can encounter when trying to access an Israeli site or service from abroad. With VPN it’s pretty simple to change your IP address to a preferred one and get access to your favorite content, apps, and stream services from anywhere in the world.

There are places where the use of a VPN is extremely important even for those who usually browse the Internet without a VPN. Those are public Wi-Fi spots, which are convenient but full of vulnerabilities. Turn on VPN before connecting, especially if you plan on doing sensitive things, like banking or shopping.

With VPN you increase security, privacy, and anonymity. Your ISP can see that you are using the Internet, and the amount of data sent and received, but can’t track what exactly you are doing on the web.