https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Act-on-the-hack-583767
By JPost Editorial
The Jerusalem Post
March 17, 2019
The report that Blue and White leader and former IDF chief of staff Benny
Gantz's phone was hacked raises many questions. Who broke into his phone? What
did they find there? Does it leave him susceptible to blackmail and other
pressures? Why are we only finding out about it now, four months after the Shin
Bet (Israel Security Agency) informed Gantz of the breach?
The original report on Channel 12 about the matter said Iran hacked Gantz's
phone. We soon learned that there was no concern that sensitive security
materials were found, which makes sense, since the hack took place years after
Gantz’s retirement from the IDF, and he has not worked in a national security
role since.
Still, that didn't stop rumors from flying about awkward personal materials
being on the phone. Blue and White emphatically denied them, adding that Gantz
has never been blackmailed. Instead, the party blamed Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and his staff for spreading the innuendo.
At the same time, according to Amit Segal, the journalist who broke the story
about the hacked phone, neither Gantz nor the Shin Bet denied that Iran was
behind the hack, though some in Blue and White continue to point fingers
elsewhere. Former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon in an interview with Army
Radio, for example, called this a "typical Netanyahu trick," and said he has
"difficulty believing the Iranians are interested in Benny Gantz’s phone."
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