Following the findings of the examination committee: Bennett will decide whether to establish a committee of inquiry into the Pegasus affair

The findings of the commission of inquiry into the allegations of illegal use of Pegasus software will be referred to the prime minister, who will decide whether to set up a state or government commission of inquiry into the matter.

According to the findings, only in the investigation of Shlomo Pilber was irrelevant information extracted.

A failed attempt was also made to run the software on two mayors

Shlomi Heller

13/02/2022

Sunday, 13 February 2022, 03:40 Updated: 08:20

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In the video: Bennett Lapid and Lieberman refer to the NSO affair (Photo: GPO and Knesset Channel)

The findings of the commission of inquiry into the allegations of illegal use of Pegasus software may reach Prime Minister Naftali Bennett today (Sunday), who will decide on the question of establishing a state commission of inquiry into the affair.

According to sources involved in the matter, the findings of the examination committee headed by attorney Amit Merri revealed that out of the 26 names that appeared in the Calcalist investigation, only in the interrogation of state witness Shlomo Pilber, former director general of the Ministry of Communications, anomalies were detected It was not relevant to the investigation. However, it was not handed over to the police investigation department and was not revealed to members of the Signet unit

. But these have failed due to "technological gaps".

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Police sources said yesterday that the very exposure of the police use of the Pegasus software could cause "tremendous damage".

"Revealed here a tool that many criminal organizations did not know about, and it will make them wary," the sources claimed.

"There will be someone here who will have to apologize to the citizens, not the police, because in the end it is a violation of the tools that are available to the police and weaken it."

With the publication in Calcalist about the use of Pegasus software by the police without a judge's order and with deviations from orders given to them, a public demand arose for the establishment of a state commission of inquiry to examine the police use of the software.

This demand has also received political backing from the government, but in light of the commission's findings regarding the list of 26 people published, the government may require the commission to continue a more comprehensive investigation of additional cases aided by the feature, thus delaying a decision to set up a commission of inquiry.

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