Former Shin Bet official pans Chikli, defends Shin Bet probe: What would happen if agency didn’t address every leak ‘excessively’?

16 April 2025, 10:38 am

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Former Shin Bet official Ilan Segev blasts Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli for accepting classified information from Shin Bet official “Aleph” and defends the organization’s investigation of the affair.

Segev tells 103FM that the Shin Bet was not exaggerating in its treatment of “Aleph,” stressing the importance of responding seriously to classified leaks.

“What do you think would happen if the Shin Bet didn’t address with ‘excessive’ severity every leak of one kind or another?”

Segev describes Chikli walking around like a “puffed-up peacock with sunglasses” at the official’s custody extension hearing yesterday, which the minister attended in solidarity with “Aleph.”