The Ministry of Communications plans to remove all of the public telephone positions

The Ministry of Communications has issued a call calling for the removal of public telephone positions in the public space and reducing the obligation to install them.
Today there are about 9,500 public landline telephones scattered in the public domain. In comparison, the number of public telephones peaked in 1996 - 27,000.
In the last two decades, in parallel with the rise in the use of cell phones, there has been a gradual decline in the use of public phones.
Regulated public telephones were established immediately after the establishment of the country's largest localities, with the establishment of the Ministry of Transport, the Post Office, the Telegraph and the Radio. These phones were UK-made CCBs and they were coin operated. In 1953, it was decided to switch to the use of tokens, following the erosion of the value of the currency due to inflation and changes in the types of currencies. During this time, the use of public telephones made by the country, which were intended for local calls only, began in parallel with the CCB devices which continued to be used for both local and international calls.
In the 1960s, public telephones, also called TZG, were installed, which allowed for direct inter-city dialing, without telephone assistance from the telephone exchange, as was then the case. Of several tokens simultaneously to the device During the Yom Kippur War, the use of public telephones increased and the price of the tokens increased, and it was not until 1981 that domestic cheap tokens production began in Israel, under the supervision of the Ministry of Communications.
In 1984, Bezeq was established, and examined a number of proposals for operating public telephone cards with different technologies. In 1990, most of the public telephones in the country began to replace hologram (optical) card-based facilities by Swiss company LANDIS & GYR through the Israeli IMI company. These cards have been called a telephone card, and have facilitated the use of the public telephone, due to their relatively light weight for tokens, ease of use, and prevention of counterfeit tokens and burglaries for device funds.
Following the change and increase in demand for public telephones, the number of handsets across the country rose from a peak of 14,000 in 1990 to a peak of 27,000 in 1996. Since then there has been a decline in the use of handsets with the entry of cell phones into the telecommunications market in Israel, and therefore the number of public telephone facilities has dropped. There are currently around 10,000 devices left in Israel (as of 2019). The Municipality of Tel Aviv, followed by the Ramat Gan Municipality, also began during the complete cancellation of public telephone booths.
In 2004, Bezeq sought to reduce the amount of public telephones scattered in the country due to the reduction in their use and cost of maintenance, but the Knesset Economic Commission rejected the request, in order to prevent damage to the peripheral communities and educational institutions. [7] Since then, further discussions have been held and the Communications Ministry has approved Bezeq to reduce the number of public telephones, and yet it has required it to leave public telephones in places of public importance such as schools and hospitals.
Today, public telephones in Israel are mainly used by groups of people who do not use cell phones, such as some of the foreign workers and the ultra-Orthodox community, for which "kosher calling cards" have been launched recently, which allow dialing of public telephone while blocking inappropriate content, as approved by the "Rabbinical Committee on Communications. Public telephones also use people staying in various closed institutions that do not allow the possession of cellular devices, such as hospitals, prisons, and boarding houses.