Firebrand Likud MK Tally Gotliv indicted for allegedly disclosing Shin Bet agent’s identity

By Sam Sokol 19 May 2026, 3:49 pm

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Sam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"

MK Tally Gotliv attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 23, 2026. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

The Attorney General’s Office announces that it has indicted firebrand Likud MK Tally Gotliv for allegedly violating the law by disclosing the identity of a Shin Bet agent.

In January 2024, Gotliv posted on social media that the partner of Shikma Bressler, a leader of the protest movement against the government’s judicial overhaul, was an agent with the security service.

In a series of posts, Gotliv spread apparent conspiracy theories alleging that Bressler’s partner had conducted talks with then-Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar prior to the terror group’s October 7, 2023, invasion, and coordinated the atrocities with Sinwar and former prime minister Ehud Barak.

Gotliv was summoned twice by police for questioning over the affair but refused to show up, claiming her actions were covered by parliamentary immunity.

According to the indictment, filed in the Petah Tikva Magistrates Court, Gotliv shared the agent’s identity “in a conscious, deliberate, ongoing, demonstrative and even repeated manner” to her tens of thousands of Twitter followers.

Despite claims by the Shin Bet that her posts constituted potential security risks, Gotliv “consciously and intentionally” did not remove the posts and stood by their publication, continuing to share posts about Bressler’s partner and stating that she would keep doing so.

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara was only able to file the indictment after Defense Minister Israel Katz, also a Likud member, signed off on a confidentiality agreement required in any case with classified, sensitive evidence.

“A stormy round of applause for Miara. She has just announced the filing of an indictment against me following Israel Katz’s signing of a confidentiality certificate,” Gotliv writes in a post on X, insisting that “the exposure of Bressler’s spouse was done within the framework and for the purpose of fulfilling my duties.”

“The indictment has not yet been sent to me, but I rely on Miara that I will read it soon through one of her mouthpieces.”