Sara Netanyahu files defamation suit against Channel 12 for claiming she leaked sensitive information

Sara Netanyahu files a lawsuit for defamation against Channel 12 News for a report in which it was claimed that she leaked highly sensitive security information, including that Israel was about to assassinate former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah three days before the actual strike.

“The respondents published and amplified a complete lie that the prime minister’s wife is passing sensitive intelligence information to friends and unauthorized parties,” states the lawsuit.

“Lies were spread that the plaintiff told friends about the intention to eliminate the Hezbollah leader three days before he was killed, and other ugly lies,” the suit continues, adding that the report constituted “a new level of severe and wild incitement and slander against the complainant while presenting lies as facts.”

The claim that Sara Netanyahu disclosed such information to her friends came from Udi Mizrahi, the host of a popular Telegram news channel with 250,000 followers.

Mizrahi told Channel 12 News that he knew about Iran’s attack against Israel in April, the assassination of Nasrallah, and Israel’s ground operation in Lebanon before they occurred thanks to second- and third-hand reports he received of information disclosed by the prime minister’s wife.

Mizrahi did indeed publish an item on his Telegram channel that Nasrallah was likely to be assassinated by Israel a day before the air strike killing the Hezbollah leader was carried out.

Sara Netanyahu’s lawsuit is filed against Channel 12 News, the Keshet media group which owns Channel 12, the Kan public broadcaster, the journalist Omri Maniv who published the report for Channel 12, and Udi Mizrahi himself.