Report: Intel officers sought to leak document about ‘foreign actor’ in Oct. 7 attack to PM

According to Hebrew media reports, a group of officers and reservists in the Military Intelligence Directorate tried to sneak an intelligence document about the October 7 attack to the prime minister after they were forbidden by their commanders to distribute it.

A transcript of a December 5 Supreme Court hearing related to the leak scandal — first obtained and published by the Ynet news website — reveals the claim that six officers drafted a document accusing a “foreign actor” of being involved in the October 7 Hamas onslaught.

When they were told by Military Intelligence Directorate commanders to kill the document, they instead reportedly tried to leak it to Likud MK Amit Halevi, hoping that he would pass it on to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The attorney for Ari Rosenfeld, a reservist charged in the leak scandal, claims that the officers approached Rosenfeld in order to get him to leak the document to relevant politicians.