A civilian and a military reservist were suspected of placing bets on future military operations.<\/p>\n
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Two Israelis have been charged with allegedly using classified military information to place bets on Polymarket, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The Defence Ministry, Shin Bet security service and the police issued a joint statement on Thursday, saying a civilian and a military reservist were suspected of placing bets on the US-based prediction market on future military operations based on information that the reservist had access to.<\/p>\n
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The statement said that the State Prosecutor\u2019s Office decided to indict them for serious security offences, as well as on charges of bribery and obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n
The military said an investigation found that \u201cno operational damage \u2060was caused in the current incident\u201d.<\/p>\n
But it \u2060said the incident was a \u201csevere ethical failure and a clear crossing of a red line.\u201d<\/p>\n
Polymarket is a US-based website where users place bets predicting the outcomes of a range of events including elections, sports or news events.<\/p>\n
Israeli authorities offered no details on the identity of the two individuals or the reservist\u2019s rank or position in the military but warned that such actions posed a \u201creal security risk\u201d for the military and the Israeli state.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s public broadcaster Kan had reported earlier that the bets were placed in June in advance of Israel\u2019s war with Iran and that the winnings were roughly $150,000.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s military and security services \u201cview the acts attributed to the defendants very seriously and will act resolutely to thwart and bring to justice any person involved in the activity of using classified information illegally,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A civilian and a military reservist were suspected of placing bets on future military operations. Listen to this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,46,47,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-288581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288581","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=288581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}