Commissioner on wiretapping affair: "Police will not become a punching bag"

The commissioner responded to the test findings, which showed that there were no indications of using Pegasus software without a court order. Defame an entire police force "

Shlomi Heller

22/02/2022

Tuesday, 22 February 2022, 18:18 Updated: 18:34

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The Commissioner of Police, Kobi Shabtai, addressed the wiretapping affair this evening (Tuesday), after the investigation team revealed that the use of the spyware was carried out only by a court order. "Public trust in the police but in all law enforcement agencies," Saturn said. "The so-called 'Pike News' has managed to infiltrate the institutionalized media and cause great damage that will take us a long time to repair.

" "The law, and in fact all the state authorities, could lead to the cutting off of the industry we are sitting on," Saturn added, warning that "this is a trend that endangers Israeli society." The commissioner pledged "this is how it will continue to be."

"As we have one country, so we have one police and I will not let her on duty violate her duty to the public," he said, "but I will not let her become either. The punching bag of those who want to harm it out of such and other interests. "

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Last night, the investigation team in the wiretapping case at the police station, headed by Amit Merri, the deputy attorney general, announced that there are no indications of using Pegasus software without a court order.

The Ministry of Justice stated that according to the information provided to the team, a court order was issued against three of the people who appeared on the list published in the Calcalist newspaper, confirming wiretapping, two of which were indeed attempted and only one was successful.

The Minister of Internal Security, Amar Bar-Lev, welcomed the findings and said that this is "a resounding acquittal for the Israeli police and uniformed men and a certificate of poverty for the newspaper. There are many people today who should bow their heads and apologize to Israeli police and their families."

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.

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