{"id":282197,"date":"2026-02-09T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/282197\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:32:07","slug":"yair-lapid-benjamin-netanyahu-falsified-security-protocols-pre-oct-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/282197\/","title":{"rendered":"Yair Lapid: Benjamin Netanyahu falsified security protocols pre-Oct. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition leader<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-886026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Yair Lapid<\/a> said Prime Minister<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-885847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> falsified official security protocols in the days leading up to the October 7, 2023, massacre and called for a criminal investigation during a Yesh Atid faction meeting on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Lapid cited a situation assessment from the Prime Minister\u2019s Office dated October 1, 2023, six days before the Hamas-led attacks. He said that then-Shin Bet chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-886015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ronen Bar<\/a> recommended preparing for a series of escalation scenarios in Gaza, and that then-IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-886015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Herzi Halevi<\/a> advised preparing an operational plan in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cThe recommendations of Ronen Bar and Herzi Halevi came following particularly urgent and serious intelligence warnings about Hamas preparing for combat in Gaza,\u201d Lapid said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Lapid went on to describe a document associated with Netanyahu as falsifying official protocols. \u201cThe Netanyahu document constitutes a falsification of security protocols in an official document issued from the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, in a way that must have been intentional,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He added, \u201cThe problem is not that Netanyahu lies. That he lies is not exactly news. What is happening here is much more serious. Deliberate editing of protocols from security discussions is a violation of the Official Secrets Law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Lapid then said he sent letters to senior security and legal officials requesting answers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cToday I sent a letter to the Security Supervisor in the security system, the legal advisor of the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, and the legal advisor of the Ministry of Defense demanding answers. Based on the answers received, the Shin Bet and the police will need to decide whether to open a criminal investigation, and against whom,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opposition leader Yair Lapid said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu falsified official security protocols in the days leading up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,737,42,14833,99185,32862,43,112344,238,103578,58,40,38,41,39,19344],"class_list":["post-282197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-herzi-halevi","tag-lapid","tag-leak","tag-news","tag-october-7-commission-of-inquiry","tag-politics","tag-ronen-bar","tag-the-october-7-massacre","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-yair-lapid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}