Benjamin Netanyahu, October 7, national security and corruption: a history of leading Israel to the abyss.

On 24 June, 2024, the Israeli National Commission of Inquiry into the Submarine Affair, which investigated the promotion of deals to purchase submarines from a German company, drafted a letter that found that “Mr. Netanyahu’s conduct…jeopardized national security and harmed the foreign relations and economic interests of the State of Israel”.

As soon as he was able to form a coalition in the aftermath of the December 2022 parliamentary elections, Netanyahu tasked Yariv Levin with advancing its judicial reform, leading to unprecedented protests, with many calling this reform an attempt to undermine separation of powers and thus, democracy. On multiple occasions, major Israeli officials and security experts warned Netanyahu that pursuing this reform and ignoring the public’s uproar would harm Israel’s security, including:-15 January 2023 : former Defence Minister & IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon warned that “If the government does not back down, I see before my eyes a security deterioration, economic damage”.-11 February 2023 : 12 former National Security advisers, including Yossi Cohen (former Mossad chief and Netanyahu’s former security adviser), published an open letter noting that the rift created by Netanyahu’s reform was “threatening national security”.-28 February 2023: reservists affiliated with the IDF’s elite cyberintelligence unit 8200 threatened not to report for duty should the judicial overhaul be voted, describing it as “a troubling cluster tell-tale signs that rise to a real fear for the integrity and security of the State of Israel”.-6 March 2023: all ten living former commanders of the IAF warned that the judicial overhaul represented a “severe and concrete danger to national security”.-20 March 2023: Defence Minister Yoav Gallant was reported to have told Netanyahu behind closed doors that if his judicial overhaul was not softened, “the IDF [would] fall apart”-21 March 2023: the INSS, one of Israel’s leading security think tanks, released a report warning that the reform would “undermine Israel’s ability to face enemies and retain support of allies”.-11 April 2023: the intelligence division of the IDF assessed that “Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas are willing to risk more offensives and daring operations”.-12 May 2023: Ben Caspit, a senior reported at Maariv, warned that that “Hamas is not deterred…The current government sees it as an asset to maintain a distinction between Gaza and the West Bank, allowing this time bomb to keep ticking. Eventually, it will explode”-29 June 2023: discussing the 2014 War, Netanyahu noted that he “knew about dozens of terror tunnels, and about the plans to transport hundreds of terrorists, enter kibbutzim and cities, kidnap soldiers and civilians and slip back into Gaza.” In the same speech, he alleged that the 2014 War “brought about a huge change. Thanks to the boys who fell, the settlements surrounding Gaza know growth, prosperity and development”. Barely three months later, these settlements were ruthlessly attacked.-17 July 2023: MK Yair Lapid, leader of the opposition, held a press conference where he warned that “the government is leading us to a national disaster. It is carrying out a dramatic regime change without discussing its economic, security and political consequences. This is terrible and dangerous amateurism, human lives are on the line”.-20 July 2023: former Shin Bet Chief Nadav Argaman warned that the judicial overhaul poses a “real threat to the security of the State of Israel”.-23 July 2023: the former Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen reiterated that “for the sake of national security, and in the face of the Iranian threat, the legislation must be stopped”.-23 July 2023: Shabak Chief Ronen Bar told Netanyahu "Today I give you a warning of war. We don’t know the day and time that it will break out."-28 July 2023: the IDF’s intelligence agency notified Netanyahu that the implications of the judicial overhaul, namely social division and deteriorated foreign relations, especially with the United States, allow for “the enemy [to perceive] the summer of 2023 as a historic weak point for Israel”. Simultaneously, it was reported that Hamas and Iranian officials met to discuss the crisis in Israel.-30 July 2023: Channels 12 and 13 reveal that Herzl Halevi, the IDF Chief of Staff, penned a letter to Netanyahu warning that revoking the reasonableness standard could “harm the army’s cohesion”.-2 August 2023: IDF Brigadier General Ebal Giladi, formee IDF strategic planning lieutenant, told Haaretz that "Hezbollah and Hamas recognize an opportunity for coordinated action against Israel in both arenas at the same time. They think that the government has stripped the country of all its strengths, and believe that this is an opportunity that has not been seen in decades. Iran also shares this assessment."-7 August 2023: Former IDF Intelligence Chief, Lt. Amos Malka, warned that "Israel is in the most serious national crisis since October 1973. At times like this, the leader is expected to identify the crisis and reassess whether it develops into a serious threat to national security. Netanyahu is acting in the opposite way - and seriously harming security."-15 August 2023: After a plot to abduct a soldier was foiled, Meir Ben Shabbat, a former National Security adviser, warned that "It seems that an organizational decision was made to renew the kidnappings for bargaining purposes. Hamas leaders see that the assets in their hands are not enough to bring about a deal for the release of prisoners, and are trying to get additional cards."-19 August 2023: Avi Dichter, a Minister within Netanyahu's cabinet, told Channel 12: "We have until October to reach agreements regarding the continuation of the legislation. Will the army be fine by then? I will not predict."-21 August 2023: it was revealed that under Netanyahu's watch, 2023 had become the deadliest year in terms of terrorist activity.-21 August 2023: IDF Maj. Gen. Avi Gil warned that the entirety of the security apparatus had identified significant weaknesses as a result of Netanyahu's leadership and lack thereof.-24 November 2024: Netanyahu's Minister of Communications, Shlomo Karhi, told the Ministerial Committee for Legislation: "We're elected officials, we can change the regime if we want to." The same day, the government announced it would defund Haaretz.-15 December 2024: Yariv Levin, Netanyahu's Minister of Justice and the architect of the judicial coup, stated he would revive the overhaul.

It was reported that Netanyahu and his government had been repeatedly warned that there were plans to carry out a large-scale attack on Israeli territory in the weeks leading up to October 7—warnings which Netanyahu ignored:-22 August 2023: Security officials warned that Hamas leaders were displaying signs of "increased self confidence."-26 August 2023: After a wave of terror attacks in Israel, Channel 12, citing security officials, reported that Hamas had drawn up plans to attack Israel during the Tishrei holidays.-31 August 2023: the IDF's Counterterrorism Command identified "a high motivation of Hamas and Islamic Jihad to carry out kidnapping attacks in the interior of the country in order to increase the bargaining chips with Israel."-5 September 2023: Palestinians from Gaza stormed the security fence along the Gaza border and detonated bombs in parts of the fence, damaging it.-10 September 2023: MK Gadi Eisenkot, a former IDF Chief of Staff, told the Institute for Counterterrorism: "In 2018, we received information according to which Sinwar is developing a pattern of action - under the auspices of mass demonstrations on the fence, armed men will enter settlements, kidnap soldiers and kill residents in kibbutzim."-11 September 2023: terrorist groups in Gaza conducted a tour near the Gaza border to observe "key points" in the fight against Israel. They issued a statement which read: "Areas of contact with the enemy and the combat readiness of the fighters were reviewed, especially at the points closest to the fence."-12 September 2023: Hamas and the PIJ released a video of exercises it conducted in Gaza where terrorists practiced taking over IDF tanks and civilian houses-13 September 2023: hundreds of Palestinians initiated riots at the Gaza border and placed explosive devices on the security fence.-18 September 2023: military analyst Noam Amir told Channel 14 that "weakness...is recognised in Hamas and they see the policy of containment. History shows that the more we make efforts to distance the escalation - the closer we bring it."-19 September 2023: Intelligence Unit 8200 released a covert report detailing Hamas’ potential attack plans, pointing to military drills which practiced raiding kibbutzim and hostage-taking. The report estimated that around 250 hostages would be taken by Hamas. The report was shrugged off by security chiefs including the government.-20 September 2023: Opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yair Lapid stated: "I am forced to warn the citizens of Israel: we are getting dangerously close to a violent, multi-scene confrontation. The recent events near the fence in Gaza are exactly the kind that led to rounds of fighting in the past."-29 September 2023: after Hamas fired incendiary balloons towards Israel, a fire was started in the Be'eri forest.-3 October 2023: the PIJ conducted a military drill at the Gaza border to simulate an attack on outposts and bases and the kidnapping of Israelis. Rockets were fired towards the sea.-4 October 2023: Brigadier General Assaf Agmon told Israeli press that "Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas are applauding the Prime Minister who is destroying the security of the state. The country is going to ruin and we refuse to see it."-9 October 2023: The Egyptian government stated its intelligence agency had repeatedly attempted to warn the Netanyahu government of “something big”, in vain.-21 November 2023: An IDF unit tasked with border surveillance, the tatzpitaniyot, told Israeli press that for weeks, they had tried to warn the chain of command of unusual activity near the Gaza border, including guerrillas training and mock attacks, as well as increased drone activity near the border. Their warnings were brushed off. Many soldiers guarding the border with Gaza were killed or abducted on October 7.On the northern front:-24 June 2023: UNIFIL confirmed that Hezbollah had set up outposts within Israeli territory near the Shebaa Farms in violation of UNSC Resolution 1701. The Netanyahu government did not act to dismantle them.

Upon entering the office of Prime Minister in 2009, Netanyahu adopted a policy that consisted in propping up Hamas in Gaza to counterweight the Palestinian Authority, which Netanyahu sought to disempower to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.-January 2013: Yuval Diskin, head of the Shin Bet from 2005 to 2011, told Yedioth Ahronoth: “If we look at it over the years, one of the main people contributing to Hamas’ strengthening has been Benjamin Netanyahu”-18 June 2015: an article published in NPR was titled “Why Israel lets Qatar give millions to Hamas”.-21 December 2016: then-Minister of Defence under Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman, wrote a covert 11-pages memo to the Prime Minister warning against funding Hamas, and ominously predicting the events of October 7, citing the possibility of Hamas terrorists taking “the conflict into Israeli territory by sending a significant number of well-trained forces into Israel to try and capture an Israeli community on the Gaza border and take hostages. Beyond the physical harm to the people, this will also lead to significant harm to the morale and feelings of the citizens of Israel”. He pushed for a preemptive war against Hamas to “ensure that the next confrontation between Israel and Hamas will be the final showdown”; Netanyahu swept away the proposal.-November 2017: the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee passed a bill to sanction Qatar for funding Hamas. In response, Netanyahu “dispatched senior defense officials to Washington” to tell American lawmakers “that Qatar had played a positive role in the Gaza Strip, according to three people familiar with the trip” per the New York Times.-2018: a letter unearthed by YNet shows Netanyahu requesting that Qatar funnels a monthly $30 million into the Gaza Strip, claiming “funding Hamas would preserve regional stability and avert humanitarian crisis”.-11 November 2018: the Prime Minister publicly defended the Hamas funds as a policy intended “to return quiet to the southern communities”.-14 November 2018: Avigdor Lieberman resigned from the Ministry of Defence in protest of the “Qatari payments to Hamas” that had been greenlighted by Netanyahu.-23 January 2019: Netanyahu’s government greenlighted the transfer of $15 million in Qatari cash to Gaza.-10 February 2019: Haaretz tallied up the total sums granted by Qatar between 2012 and 2018 with the blessing of successive Netanyahu governments, totalling more than a billion dollars.-March 2019: Netanyahu told his Likud partners that anyone “who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas”.-August 2019: Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak stated that Netanyahu’s “strategy is to keep Hamas alive and kicking…even at the price of abandoning the citizens of the south”.-2019: MK Galit Distel Atbaryan of Netanyahu’s party praised Netanyahu for keeping “Hamas on its feet”. Atbaryan was later tapped as a minister in Netanyahu’s government following the 2022 election.-June 2021: Yossi Cohen, who had just stepped down from the Mossad leadership, warned that Qatari money to Hamas had gotten “out of control”.-27 February 2023: MK Avigdor Lieberman, chief of the Yisrael Beitenu faction, told the Knesset that “the person behind the wave of terror is Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and you [Netanyahu] finance it”.-12 May 2023: Ayelet Goldin, sister of Hadar Goldin, an IDF soldier whose body was captured by Hamas during the 2014 war, told Channel 12 that “Almost nine years have passed since the Prime Minister promised us that he would return him. In the meantime, we continue to transfer money and feed Hamas.”-September 2023: David Barnea, head of the Mossad, was dispatched to Doha by Prime Minister Netanyahu and asked by Qatari officials if the Israeli government still approved of the policy to transfer funds to Hamas; the Netanyahu government having recently okayed it, Barnea spoke favourably of the policy.-28 September 2023: Avigdor Lieberman toured the Gaza envelope and filmed a video stating: "This is what surrendering to terrorism looks like. The Israeli government decided to ask Qatar to increase the monthly grant to the Gaza Strip - this is extortion money for a terrorist organisation."-29 September 2023: the government formally authorised an increase in Qatari grants to Gaza.Since 2018, Netanyahu has facilitated the entry of Qatari cash money into Gaza, money that was funnelled to Hamas. In 2015, current Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich referred to Hamas as an “asset”. Since 2014, Netanyahu has almost consistently ignored rocket fire and the use of incendiary balloons by Hamas.

Netanyahu has forsaken the abductees held by Hamas in Gaza. Over the months, he has repeatedly torpedoed the hostages deal talks, caved in to the pressures of his Kahanist allies to hijack the talks and return to fighting.-13 December 2023: David Barnea, the head of the Mossad, offered to travel to Doha to discuss another ceasefire and hostage deal, but the government blocked him.-14 February 2024: Netanyahu declined to send a delegation to the hostage deal negotiations.-19 May 2024: a source within the Israeli War Cabinet reported that “Netanyahu is prepared to abandon the hostages”.-1 June 2024: Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir threatened to leave the government should Netanyahu greenlight a hostage deal.-16 June 2024: Former War Cabinet member Benny Gantz revealed that Netanyahu repeatedly torpedoed the talks and delayed them to satisfy Ben Gvir and Smotrich.-23 June 2024: Netanyahu told Channel 14 that that he no longer supported his own ceasefire proposal, endorsed by the US and most of the international community, switching his position to only backing a “partial deal” to “bring some of the hostages home”. The fate of the remaining hostages falls, according to him, into irrelevancy.-12 July 2024: David Barnea, head of the Mossad, reported that Netanyahu was intentionally sabotaging and hindering the hostage talks by imposing conditions he knows will be rejected by Hamas.-17 July 2024: Netanyahu was reported to have told his cabinet that “there is no reason for us to fret. The hostages are suffering but they’re not dead”.-30 August 2024: 6 hostages held by Hamas were found dead in a tunnel; they had been executed by Hamas. Some of the hostages were slated to be released as humanitarian hostages in the deal that had been negotiated in July, but rejected by Netanyahu.-4 September 2024: the Hostage Families' Forum demanded that Netanyahu stop wearing the hostage yellow pin, to "stop creating a false impression of support and striving for the return of the hostages when in reality you are doing everything to torpedo a deal."-21 November 2024: a Haaretz exposé revealed that Netanyahu's aides crafted a disinformation campaign with foreign media intended to justify preventing a hostages' deal in the immediate aftermath of the execution of the 6 hostages in September. The campaign doubled down on the alleged importance of the Philadelphi Axis, with a purported leaked document pointing to Yahya Sinwar's intention to flee to Iran with hostages through a tunnel under the Philadelphi Axis. The document was revealed to have been forged. Netanyahu is alleged to have been involved in the conspiracy, as the lawyer to the main suspect told N12 that his client "operated through Netanyahu."-24 November 2024: Ruby Chen, who is a relative of American hostage Itay Chen, confirmed that Netanyahu had been feeding the incoming Trump administration with false information about the hostages intended to delay a deal.-25 November 2024: Rabbi Elhanan Danino, the father of Uri Danino, one of the hostages whom Hamas executed in late August, told Israeli radio: "After Uri was murdered, I was exposed to very serious things, horrific data; three deals for the release of the hostages that could have happened were derailed by Netanyahu."-26 December 2024: Amichai Eliyahu, Netanyahu's Minister of Heritage, insisted that the release of the hostages is less important than "the dismissal of the Attorney General."-27 December 2024: Kan revealed that American diplomats believed the hostage deal talks had been compromised by Netanyahu's impromptu interview with the Wall Street Journal in which he stated he would not end the war as part of a deal. Another leak from the PMO emphasised that Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti would not be released as part of a deal.

For 18 months, Netanyahu refused to re-establish a working group to study and analyse Iran’s nuclear program and the threats stemming from it.Furthermore, Netanyahu actively lobbied against the Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA), which was eventually tanked by President Trump. Since 2018, when the US withdrew from the deal, Iran has amassed unprecedentedly high levels of enriched uranium and is now on the brink of acquiring a nuclear device—under Netanyahu's watch.

Since October 7, terrorists from Hezbollah in Lebanon have been escalating the situation on the northern border. As a result of Netanyahu’s apathy and disregard for the security of the north :-Hezbollah was allowed to set up outposts inside Israeli sovereign territory, on Mount Dov, serving as a launchpad. The INSS wrote that Hezbollah had invaded Israel out of an “understanding that the internal difficulties since the establishment of the government portend weakness”. As previously noted, the Netanyahu government never took steps to dismantle these outposts.-22 August 2023: Netanyahu's adviser for national security, Tzachi Hanegbi, shrugged off warnings about Hezbollah's outposts in northern Israel, assessing that they "do not endanger Israel's security."-Over 100,000 Israelis have been internally displaced in the north.-Entire swaths of land have been destroyed in wildfires as a direct result of unfettered Hezbollah rocket fire.-War is looming on the northern front.

In the immediate aftermath of the October 7 massacre, Netanyahu rushed to utilize public funds to renovate his villa in Caesarea:-29 January 2024: Netanyahu’s Chief Accountant, Roy Benvenisti, submitted his resignation in protest of Netanyahu’s request for additional funds to renovate his seaside villa’s pool.-26 June 2024: YNet reported that in the days following the massacre, Netanyahu acquired cutlery and cooking equipment worth $7,000; an additional $20,000 was spent on gardening and $26,700 on electrical appliances, textiles and “security”. All these charges were paid by Israeli taxpayers.

Yair Netanyahu, the Prime Minister’s son and protégé, has been frolicking in Florida since the beginning of the war while others Israelis his age die on the frontlines—with the Prime Minister’s blessing. While in exile in Miami:-19 November 2023: Yair Netanyahu posted a message attacking the IDF in the midst of the war against Hamas.-10 April 2024: The Times of Israel reported that Yair’s stay in Miami costs the State an estimated NIS 2.5 million (around $680K) annually, paid for by Israeli taxpayer money.-31 May 2024: Yair Netanyahu liked a tweet accusing President Joe Biden of “operating at the service of Hamas”.-17 June 2024: Yair Netanyahu accused the IDF of treason.-23 June 2024: Yair Netanyahu vacationed in Guatemala accompanied by his costly and unapproved Shin Bet bodyguards which the Shin Bet recommended replacing.-27 December 2024: After Sara Netanyahu joined her son in Miami, N12 revealed that the cost of security for the two is 520,000 NIS (around 141,000$) per month, all paid for by the taxpayer.

On 30 April 2021, some 45 Jewish worshippers were killed in a stampede in Mount Meron during a Lag BaOmer celebration. The exact cause of the stampede remains unclear, but it is believed that people slipped and fell on a metal ramp, causing others to fall on top of them, leading to a deadly crush. The Meron Disaster was one of the deadliest civilian disasters in Israel’s history.In March 2024, the National Commission of Inquiry found that Netanyahu was personally responsible for the disaster as his government was repeatedly warned of the dangers of the celebration by the police commissioner.

In December 2010, a fire broke out on Mount Carmel near Haifa. The blaze had soon consumed around 50 square kilometers (12,500 acres) of forest, agricultural land, and residential areas. 44 people died as a result of the fire. The fire occurred under Netanyahu’s watch.Subsequently, the State Comptroller castigated the police, but especially Netanyahu’s ministers of interior and finance who, according to the Times of Israel, had been bickering “over funding for years, he wrote, creating a situation in which Israel possessed only 20 tons of fire suppressant material — some 90 percent less than the emergency minimum — on the eve of the fire in December 2010”. The comptroller found that Netanyahu bore overall responsibility for the shortcomings. In the aftermath of the report, Netanyahu refused to dismiss the two ministers.The three worst civilian disasters in Israel’s history occurred under Netanyahu: Carmel, Meron, October 7.

Prior to October 7, Netanyahu undertook to tank Israel’s economy by doubling down on his judicial coup. For months, countless analysts, experts, international mechanisms and statistics warned of the consequences of the proposed legislation:-21 February 2023: after the Shekel, Israel’s currency, faced an imminent 8% loss to its value, CitiBank blamed the government’s judicial coup.-5 March 2023: Mike Bloomberg warned that Netanyahu is “courting disaster” and jeopardising its economy and security in the region.-23 March 2023: after Netanyahu delivered a speech brazenly doubling down on his reform amidst widespread protests, the Shekel sunk by 2%—the biggest drop among the world’s major currencies, according to Shalom Lipner and at a three-year low.-13 April 2023: a report published in Haaretz revealed that 80% of investors in Israeli startups viewed the legislation negatively and believed it would harm their portfolios.-4 May 2023: Arnon Bar David, head of the Histadrut, Israel’s largest workers’ union, told an IMF delegation that “the legal coup has set the country back. For about half a year nothing has been managed in the State of Israel”.-16 June 2023: a forum of CEOs in Israel excoriated the judicial coup, wrote that “changing a practice that has been in place for years will result in further and irreversible damage to investors’ confidence in the Israeli economy”.-18 June 2023: MK Yair Lapid, leader of the opposition, warned that if “Netanyahu goes ahead with the coup unilaterally as he has stated, he will find that he is the Prime Minister of less than half of the people in Israel, with less than helf of the economy”.-10 July 2023: the Bank of America penned a letter to its investors emphasising that “The weakening of the shekel is caused by the political noise, not from economic balance”.-10 July 2023: a report in CTech reported that “initial investments in Israeli startups dropped by 90% in Q1 of 2023”.-25 July 2023: a Moody’s analytics revealed that “venture capital investments in Israeli high-tech firms have declined materially, with the sector raising $3.7 billion in the first months of the year, the lowest figure since 2019”. The report further noted: “According to analysis by the Israel Innovation Authority, more than 80% of new Israeli startups have chosen to register overseas rather than in Israel since the start of this year, compared with just 20% in 2022…The Israeli stock exchange and the NASDAQ have also diverged, suggesting that country-specific considerations may be holding back Israeli tech stocks”.-26 July 2023: the former Governor of the Bank of Israel, Jacob Frankel, wrote that “promises were broken, [Netanyahu’s] law crushed the Israeli economy’s credibility”.-21 August 2023: i24 News reported that the shekel had reached its lowest level since 2017 against the dollar and the euro.

After October 7, and as over 100,000 Israelis from the south were displaced and entire kibbutzim destroyed, Netanyahu yielded to the pressures of his far-right and religious allies to funnel money into the Haredi community—despite having pledged not to do so during the war.-30 October 2023: over 300 Israeli economists appealed to the government to immediately cease the funding of all activities unrelated to the war effort and the restoration of the economy, slamming the government for not understanding “the magnitude of the economic crisis”.-4 November 2023: Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich told Channel 12 that Israel would “control Gaza after the war” while vowing not to “invest a shekel in defence of the south”.-5 November 2023: the government transferred NIS 300 million to Haredi education.-20 January 2024: Moody’s downgraded Israel’s credit rating citing the effects of the war in Gaza.-19 February 2024: Reuters reported that the Israeli economy had been hit with a 19.4% drop in GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2023.-26 February 2024: Nir Barkat, Likud’s Minister of Economy and Industry, pledged to tank Israel’s economy for the sake of achieving “total victory”.-19 April 2024: S&P Global downgraded Israel’s credit rating citing the effects of the war in Gaza.-2 July 2024: the Israeli government promoted a plan to build over 6,000 housing units in the occupied West Bank, in breach of the Geneva Conventions and while entire villages in the south and in the north remain uninhabitable.-11 July 2024: according to a report published in Maariv, some 46,000 businesses have been forced to close in the months after October 7.

In an exposé published in Israeli media in December 2024, it was revealed that Sara Netanyahu, the Prime Minister's wife, intimidated and tampered with a witness in one of her husband's criminal cases, Hadas Klein.The exposé further leaked messages from 2020, when Sara Netanyahu instigated a riot in front of the Farkash home, the Netanyahus' neighbour who lost their son in the 2006 Lebanon war. Sara exchanged messages with Chani Bleiweiss, the then head of the PMO, suggesting that Bleiweiss unleashes "Likudniks" to "curse them, shout at them."The report also pointed to corruption in the police, as Bleiweiss promoted the then-commander of the Yarkon district, Danny Levy, to the Netanyahus, praising him for violently cracking down on antigovernment protesters.As a result, the Attorney-General of Israel urged the police to open a criminal investigation into Sara Netanyahu.