Labor MK to be questioned on charges of leaking classified info

Police are reportedly set to question Labor MK Gilad Kariv on allegations that he leaked classified information from a closed-door hearing of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

According to Channel 12 news, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana of Likud requested that Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara open an investigation into Kariv. The Labor MK is expected to be questioned under caution next week.

In response, Kariv says in a statement that he “never harmed the security of the state,” and that unlike some of his colleagues in the coalition, he fully intends to cooperation with the police summons.

He accuses the Likud party of using its “poison machine” to “incite against the Israeli opposition” and says that throughout the ongoing war, there have been numerous leaks from the security cabinet, “and an investigation was not opened into a single one of them.”