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(Updated: December 29, 2015) In an earlier posting on this weblog we took a look at the phones used by the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which included an eye-catching red one. In some more recent pictures we can see that this red phone has apparently been replaced by an interesting looking white telephone. Although this device itself is white, it has a rarely seen but very distinctive feature: a red curly cord for the handset and also a red cable for the phone line. The buttons are also surrounded by some kind of red overlay: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets with Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, July 26, 2014 in Tel Aviv. (Photo: Handout/Getty - Click to enlarge) The dark gray phone at the left is a more common Nortel M3904 executive phone - a model which is also used at the NSA headquaters and at the office of the British prime minister. Nortel was a big Canadian telephone equipment manufacturer, but was dissolved in...

(Updated: December 29, 2015) Based upon popular culture, many people think both the US and Russian presidents have a red telephone on their desks, as part of the famous Hotline between both countries. In a previous article we showed that the Washington-Moscow Hotline is not even a telephone line, let alone there are red phones at both ends. But, as we can see in the picture below, the prime minister of Isreal does have a red phone on his desk: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and defence minister Ehud Barak hold talks in the prime minister's office (Photo: Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry/Flash90, November 2012) The dark gray phone at the right, which Netanyahu is using, is a high-end Nortel M3904 executive phone - a model which is also used at the NSA headquaters and at the office of the British prime minister. Nortel was a big Canadian telephone equipment manufacturer, but was dissolved in 2009. The Enterprise Voice and Data division of Nortel was bought by t...