> I'm assuming they'd like to avoid spying on citizens of states they depend on militarily/politically or that have the capability of retaliating. It's an open

> I'm assuming they'd like to avoid spying on citizens of states they depend on militarily/politically or that have the capability of retaliating. It's an open secret that Israel has been conducting economic and military espionage against the US[0][1][2] and stealing civilian and military technology for decades. This "blocking +1 numbers" is rather a thin veneer to prevent third parties from endangering the "official" Israeli espionage program. [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/israeli-spying-on-us-has-reached-terrifying-levels-2014-5?r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/israeli-spying-on-us-has-rea... [1] https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house-spying-devices-1491351 https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/world/middleeast/jonathan-pollard-israel-us-spy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/world/middleeast/jonathan...