Prosecutors have filed an indictment against a civilian and an IDF reservist for allegedly using classified operational information to place bets on military actions via the Polymarket website, Israeli media reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Tel Aviv District Court lifted a gag order at the request of the State Attorney\u2019s Office cyber department, which said the reservist accessed the information through his army role and shared it with the civilian for wagering purposes.<\/p>\n
According to a court-approved paraphrase requested by the prosecution, the suspects were arrested in a joint operation by the Shin Bet, the Arazim investigations unit within the Defense Ministry\u2019s Security Authority (Malmab), and Israel Police.<\/p>\n
Following investigations by Malmab and the Shin Bet, prosecutors decided to bring them to trial on serious security offenses, bribery, and obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n
The case follows reporting that Israeli authorities were examining whether insider information had been used to profit from prediction markets tied to Israeli operations in Iran in June 2025.<\/p>\n
Experts and commentators have warned that online prediction markets can be abused with insider information and monitored by hostile actors, raising operational security concerns for democracies. Israeli authorities have also confronted a series of security and cyber cases in recent years, underscoring the sensitivity of data flows connected to national defense.<\/p>\n
The prosecution\u2019s statement reiterated that the two defendants are not senior officials in any security or other government body. The court did not release further identifying details due to legal restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors have filed an indictment against a civilian and an IDF reservist for allegedly using classified operational information…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31690,737,42,1031,2899,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-287338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-betting","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-idf","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287338","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=287338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}