Former directors of government ministries: "Demand a state commission of inquiry into the police espionage case"

The Turner Foundation, Emmy Palmor and Shai at the AVD, who according to a Calcalist investigation the police infiltrated their personal phone in violation of the law, contacted the Prime Minister, the Minister of Internal Security and the Commissioner and also demanded the destruction of the materials and a detailed explanation.

"Our whole personal and professional world was exposed, a reality that is hard to describe"

Between Ashkenazi

08/02/2022

Tuesday, 08 February 2022, 08:57 Updated: 09:26

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In the video: Minister Bar-Lev announces his decision to establish a committee of inquiry that will investigate in depth the violation of civil rights (Photo: Spokeswoman for the Ministry of Internal Security)

The directors of the government ministries with whom NSO's spyware was allegedly planted, wrote a letter today (Tuesday) to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Gideon Saar, among others, to set up a state commission of inquiry into the matter. , Shai

BaVad

, former director general of the Ministry of Finance and Keren Turner, former director general of the Ministry of Transportation and Finance .

Only recently has the Supreme Court insisted that "behind every search on a computer, and especially on a smartphone, stands a person whose entire personal world, family business, and sometimes the most intimate information about him may be exposed to foreign eyes."

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Turner Foundation (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel, Flash 90)

"In view of the seriousness of the matter, you are requested, in accordance with the powers, to act as follows: To establish a state commission of inquiry. Materials and information in the possession of the police will be destroyed immediately.

We would like to receive a detailed explanation immediately as to whether the police did indeed infiltrate spyware or did any other act of searching and eavesdropping on our phones.

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Among the names on the list are the son of former Prime Minister Avner Netanyahu, businessman Rami Levy and former director general of the Ministry of Finance Keren Turner and Shai BaVad.

Emmy Palmor (Photo: Ofer Vaknin)

According to Calcalist's exposure, the police hung up the spyware without opening an investigation and without legal approval.

Among the "infected" in the software are Walla! Journalist, former Walla! CEOs Ilan Yeshua and Aviram Elad, Stella Handler, former CEO of Bezeq, Iris Elowitz, the spouse of the former controlling shareholder in Bezeq, former CEOs of the Ministry of Finance, Keren Turner and Shai Bab Businessman Rami Levy, Amy Palmor, former director general of the Ministry of Justice, Yair Katz, chairman of the IAI Workers' Committee and son of MK Haim Katz, former directorates of the Ministry of Communications, Avi Berger and Shlomo Pilber, Dudu Mizrahi, director general Bezeq, Avner Netanyahu, son of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu's advisers Yonatan Orich and Topaz Lok, Yoram Simhon, mayor of Mevaseret Zion, Miriam Feierberg, mayor of Netanya, Moti Sasson, mayor of Holon and Yaakov Peretz, mayor of Kiryat Ata.

In the Av Beit Din (Photo: Roni Kanfo)

Following the exposure, Minister of Internal Security Amar Bar-Lev announced at a meeting of the Labor faction that he was considering setting up a state commission of inquiry headed by a judge to examine the affair.

This, instead of a government commission of inquiry.

Bar-Lev's announcement came after criticism and after many ministers called for it to be done.

"Let it be clear," Bar-Lev said, "the commission, government or state, will investigate not only what has been published, but also what has not yet been published. "At the very beginning and at the end, we will reach the investigation of the truth. We will eradicate corruption and preserve democracy. This is a commitment."

In addition, Commissioner Kobi Shabtai ordered the cessation of the use of spyware "until a thorough investigation" of the affair. According to Shabtai, the use of the software will be approved "in exceptional cases of life-threatening danger only".

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