My kids all got cell phones when we made aliyah.
I’m not sure why 2morecents makes the assertion that “The idea of having even a plain Jane talk / text only phone is downright dangerous in and of itself. The internet capabilities (which is inevitable) is just the icing on the cake that can further do harm.”
My kids are teenagers. They do not pay the cell phone bills, my wife does. How will they suddenly manage to get internet capability on their phones without us seeing it on the bill? It doesn’t just show up on a phone one day by magic!
We’ve been here three years, and none of them have “quickly figured out how to get their hands on a phone with all the magic.” The only way they can do that is if they magically started paying the bills on their own.