IDF denies Netanyahu’s claim that military hid vital classified intel from him

After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday claimed that vital classified documents were not reaching him, the military says it does not hide any relevant information from the premier.

“I am the prime minister. I need to receive important classified documents, and indeed sometimes important information doesn’t reach me,” Netanyahu said in a nearly nine-minute video statement, defending his aide and other suspects in a case in which sensitive intelligence material was leaked from the IDF and given to the German tabloid, Bild.

The IDF says that it does not hide and has not hidden any information from the political echelon, and that it is subject to the instructions of the political echelon.

The military says that there are authorized officials in the Prime Minister’s Office — members of his military secretariat — who have “access to all the relevant intelligence material.”