PM’s chief of staff Tzachi Braverman alleged to be in possession of sensitive videos of IDF officer

The Kan public broadcaster alleges that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff Tzachi Braverman is behind a blackmail threat against an IDF officer in the prime minister’s office.

Reports on Thursday night claimed that a member of Netanyahu’s staff — purportedly Braverman — had separately collected sensitive security camera videos of both recently fired defense minister Yoav Gallant and an IDF officer who worked at the Prime Minister’s Office, for unclear purposes.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi was informed that the PMO was in possession of the footage several months ago and that it had been used in a questionable manner.

Braverman denies the accuracy of the Kan report, calling it “defamatory.”

“This is a lie from start to finish, the goal of which is to harm me and the PMO in the midst of a war,” he says.