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Elections committee chair: Shin Bet has no intel on efforts to harm Eisenkot; only Shin Bet authorized to provide security for him
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Central Elections Committee chairman Noam Sohlberg says Shin Bet director David Zini has informed the panel that there is no intelligence suggesting there are attempts to harm Gadi Eisenkot, the former minister and ex-IDF chief whose Yashar party is leading in most opinion polls ahead of the October 27 election.
The statement by the deputy president of the Supreme Court comes after a Channel 12 report yesterday that Zini has denied the request to provide an armed security detail for Eisenkot.
“The Shin Bet director says there is no intelligence on harm to Eisenkot — and he is the professional authority on this issue,” Sohlberg says, clarifying that the elections committee is “not authorized” to intervene.
“If there are alerts on any kind of intention to harm the head of the Yashar party, the Shin Bet head will inform me,” he adds.
The Times of Israel Community.