Diskin calls PM residence film a ‘severe security breach’

The headquarters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a 15-minute long clip which aims to show the bad condition of the prime ministerial residence on Jerusalem’s Balfour Street, presumably in an effort to preempt the media fallout of a state comptroller report on expenses by the prime minister and his family expected to be published tomorrow.

The clip was slammed by Netanyahu’s opponents as a cheap electioneering trick, but on Monday evening it was slammed by former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin – known for his dislike of Netanyahu – for entirely different reasons.

Taking to his Facebook page (Diskin’s preferred way of making public statements), Diskin wrote: “Shooting a clip inside the prime minister’s residence is a severe security breach. It seems like the panic over the state comptroller’s report made the royal family forget its very highly developed security concerns.

“What did we have there? Doors, windows, the type of locks, rooms, internal architecture and furniture, all phone connection points and other gadgets and more…

Cynically describing Sara Netanyahu, Diskin says the tour was “Personally led by the ‘acting prime minister’ during 15 minutes inside the residence (and sometimes work space) of the most secure personality in the country…

“From experience, I can say that any intelligence service or terror organization would pay huge sums of money to acquire all these data. The judgment of whoever was behind this sad and miserable clip should be highly doubted. Let’s hope that we will not go to war because of some dampness in the walls…”

Diskin’s status was shared more than 300 times and liked by more than 1,500 people within an hour of being posted.