Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman says a foreign state “intends to intervene” in Israel’s upcoming elections on April 9.
According to a report by Hadashot television news, Argaman made the statement last night at an event in Tel Aviv hosted by Friends of Tel Aviv University.
Though the comments were made in a public forum, the military censor has placed a gag order on much of what Argaman said.
But it allowed the following quotes to be made public, Hadashot says.
“I can’t say at this point for whom or against whom” the intervention will come, “but it involves cyber and hacking.”
In a quote carried by another news outlet, the words were framed as, “100% that [unreportable foreign state] will intervene in the upcoming elections, and I know what I’m talking about, I just don’t know in whose favor.”
Argaman indicated the impending attack on Israel’s elections wasn’t merely an assessment or expectation, but that the Shin Bet had information pointing to a specific opponent preparing a specific attack.
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