The Israeli Prime Minister's Office is facing three investigations: Accusations of blackmail, manipulation of minutes of meetings early in the Gaza war, and intelligence leaks. Are they connected? Is Netanyahu at risk? Haaretz breaks down the probes, the suspicions and the alleged perpetrators
The Israeli Prime Minister's Office is currently the focus of three investigations concerning its conduct on matters related to the current war that raise suspicions of criminal activity.
The first probe regards the allegation that the PMO tried to amend minutes of official discussions held since the war erupted. The second involves one or more PMO officials who allegedly blackmailed an IDF officer to obtain access to sensitive documents. And the third probe, leading to the arrest of a former Netanyahu spokesperson, concerns the suspicion that the PMO leaked sensitive intelligence that may have seriously harmed national security. Here, we explain each affair in greater detail and how they are all directly or indirectly connected to one another.
What is the manipulation of the minutes affair?
For several months, the police have been investigating a suspicion that PMO officials tried to manipulate the minutes of cabinet discussions held during the war, as well as the transcripts of phone calls held by decision-makers, including Netanyahu, in the war's first days.
On Sunday, Yediot Ahronot reported that changes were also allegedly made to the minutes of a cabinet discussion about Israel's preparations for hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. To date, no one has been questioned as a suspect in involvement in manipulating the minutes.
The suspicions arose after Netanyahu's former military secretary, Avi Gil, contacted Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara over six months ago. According to a report in Yediot Ahronot, Gil did so after PMO officials alerted him that colleagues had tried to tamper with some of the minutes at the end of several classified meetings.
The PMO denied the report, calling it a "total lie, something that never happened."....
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These SIM card activations helped trigger a meeting of top defense officials in the early hours of Oct 7th, according to Haaretz. The “emergency consultations” throughout the night of Oct 6th, mentioned earlier in the previous referenced December article, “Israel’s Shin Bet Ignored Crucial Intel Before 7 October”, are referring to the same events.
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