Labor head calls on PM to probe Israeli official who worked with Manafort

Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay calls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to open an investigation into an unnamed senior Israeli official who allegedly worked with Paul Manafort, US President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, to spread accusations of anti-Semitism by an Ukrainian opposition leader.

“It can’t be that an incident like this passes through our hands without being dealt with and it can’t be that we accept that someone in the service in the state works for foreign actors, whether for payment or not,” Gabbay, who heads the opposition Zionist Union faction, writes on his Twitter account.

The involvement of a senior Israeli official in Manafort’s work for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was revealed in court documents filed Friday as part of a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential campaign.