Iran's Cyber Threats to Israel's 2019 Elections and Beyond

Описание: THE SPIN ROOM | It's been alleged that Benny Gantz's phone has been compromised after Iranians hacked it and that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's phone was hacked as well months ago. How can private citizens and public officials protect themselves and what is politically at stake for the officials involved? Cyber security experts Eyal Sela and Ram Levi analyze.

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The saga behind the Iranian phone hacking incident that has stoked the political war between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin and Netanyahu and his top challenger Benny Gantz continues to color the lead up to the April 9 elections.

Gantz has slammed several criminal probes against the Prime Minister as the 'greatest security-related corruption in the history of the State of Israel.'

He called for further investigation by the Attorney General into recent allegations of Iranian hackers compromising his cell phone and for a state commission of inquiry to probe one of the corruption cases against the Premier referred to as the submarine affair after fresh allegations emerged he may have earned millions of shekels off the deal.

Gantz submitted a request for an 'urgent examination' to the attorney general into the phone 'hacking' incident, as it is cynically presented in the letter that suggests Netanyahu is responsible.

Although the appeal to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit does not mention Netanyahu by name, it says the trail of evidence leads to 'a very specific office in Jerusalem.' 

The request pointed out that 'leaks of an event with potentially security-related characteristics constitute a serious violation of state security' 

'The more this leak was made from a political motive, the greater the damage to state security, the greater the breach of trust,' the letter read.Fellow party member and former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon was more explicit in his indictment of the political establishment during an interview with Channel 13 news over the weekend.

'The Iranians are not behind the hack, they aren’t the ones attacking the prime minister’s rivals. Someone has degenerated the political system and is willing to sacrifice all values for political survival,' Ya’alon said.

'I know the defense establishment, and I also know the prime minister’s world,' he said starkly. 'This did not come from the Shin Bet.'

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