Former Shin Bet chief: PM residence film ‘severe security breach’

Former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin said Monday that the video of Sara Netanyahu giving a tour of the ‘run down’ Prime Minister’s Residence breached security protocols because it showed the interior of the prime minister’s home.

The 15-minute clip released by the prime minister Monday highlighted the deteriorating condition of the Netanyahu residence, a day before the state comptroller’s report on the spending of public funds at the prime minister’s Jerusalem home was scheduled to be released.

The virtual tour, featuring celebrity designer Moshe Galmin, was understood by many as an effort to dull any potential fallout from the comptroller’s findings.

Diskin, an outspoken critic of the prime minister, charged that the Netanyahus’ “panic” at the comptroller’s report made them forget the security threats they faced.

“Shooting a video inside the prime minister’s residence is a severe security breach,” Diskin wrote on his Facebook page Monday.

“What did we have here? Doors, windows, the type of locks, rooms, internal architecture and furniture, all phone connection points and other gadgets,” he wrote.

Diskin sarcastically wrote that the tour was personally led by “acting prime minister” Sara Netanyahu, and said that foreign intelligence agencies and terror organizations would pay large sums of money to acquire the specific information revealed in the video.

“Let’s hope that we will not go to war because of some moisture in the walls,” he said.

Netanyahu’s opponents slammed the clip as an electioneering stunt, and said the video would not distract the public from the allegations of excessive spending and misappropriation of state funds.

Jonathan Beck contributed to this report.