Against the backdrop of the investigation into a Shin Bet agent who leaked classified intelligence, Channel 12 reports on another such incident that took place in the agency, which led to the arrest of a different employee.
The latter employee is suspected of having shared with two of her relatives the details of the IDF’s planned operation to rescue four Israeli hostages from Gaza in June of last year.
That information made its way onto a small Telegram channel several hours before the operation to rescue Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41 was carried out.
The group was small, so the information did not reach Hamas or the wider Israeli public before the operation went ahead.
After the security establishment got wind of the leak, the Shin Bet worker was arrested and barred from meeting with a lawyer for four days. She was indicted and remains under house arrest, as her trial is ongoing.
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