We are revealing tonight that Shin Bet Director David Zini met today with Central Elections Committee Chairman Judge Noam Solberg and complained during the meeting that the Shin Bet’s legal advisor is tying his hands in investigating the case of election manipulation in the Arab sector, in coordination with the Attorney General’s office.
1+As a reminder, that legal advisor is a holdover from the Ronen Bar era who, according to reports, has been undermining Zini from the start—tried to pass materials to the Gronis Committee and has clashed bitterly with him on numerous issues. Sources involved in the investigation tell us: Just like in the espionage affair and the psychiatric ward affair, the Attorney General’s office is trying to block this sensitive and serious investigation.
She prevented investigative actions in real time. Far less than this has triggered investigations into the Prime Minister’s Office. And in legal terms, what’s happening here is what’s called “the tip of the iceberg.” When you see systematic and deliberate organization, planned on a large scale—not one incident at one polling station—the working assumption is that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
1+And here’s where the dispute with the Attorney General’s office comes in: whether to focus only on the findings that were caught and are known, or to expand the investigation. Those same sources tell us: It’s simply a scandal that Solberg is limiting this and demanding that Zini bring findings by Wednesday. That’s not how it works—this is a complex investigation that needs to be conducted. Not only that, but they’re trying to minimize the incident and cement election results that were apparently achieved through fraud by manipulating the vote in the Arab sector on a massive scale. The Shin Bet responded: “We will not comment on what was said in closed sessions.”