Riot after Riot: Last night (Thursday) it was announced that new Knesset member Tali Gottlieb accuses Netanyahu’s associates of leaking a conversation between them to journalist Ben Caspit. The correspondence was revealed by the journalist Dafna Lial. “The content of the conversation was known only to me and these two officials,” wrote Gottlieb, accusing Netanyahu’s associates Tzachi Braverman and Ikki Cohen. A member of the David Bitan faction backed her up.
After her message was deleted from the group by Aliza Barashi, the faction manager, Gottlieb wrote again, Gottlieb was furious and claimed that it was a gag. Today (Fri) comes Gottlieb’s response that she founded an alternative group for Knesset members under the title: “Freedom of Speech for Knesset Members”. In the photo from the group, published by a colleague of Segal, the messages that Gottlieb sends to her friends are visible. “This group is meant to allow us to communicate with each other without fear of gagging,” Gottlieb wrote and added: “I miss Mai and Yoav’s cell phones.”
Gottlieb reveals the leak of Netanyahu’s associates
The beginning of the event when the two arrived at her office in order to speak with her ahead of the Knesset member’s opening speech and tried to soften her message, immediately after Gottlieb claims, the journalist Ben Caspit called her to get her response. “I thought to Tommy that it would stay inside the office,” Gottlieb wrote.
Disclosure of correspondence:
Stormy tonight in the Likud WhatsApp group. Members of Knesset Gottlieb and Bitan against Tzachi Braverman and Ikki Cohen, Netanyahu’s confidants. pic.twitter.com/RsOf8wMTrm
— Daphna Liel (@DaphnaLiel) December 1, 2022
“I didn’t know that there was a direct leak in Netanyahu’s environment again”
In the message, Gottlieb wrote as follows: “My friends from the faction. Tzachi Braverman and Ikki Cohen, who are supposed to be Netanyahu’s confidants, came to my office before my opening speech and asked me to be public and ride. I answered them that there is no such chance,” writes Gottlieb. “I thought to Tomi that it would stay within my office to Direon Olam. But Ben Kasfit called to receive my response to the content of the conversation that is known only to me and these two officials. I did not know that again in Netanyahu’s environment there is a direct leak no less than Ben Kasfit directly.”
Tzachi Braverman Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL
The Knesset member ends her message to her members in Likud and writes: “I’m writing this here because tomorrow it turns out that it will be written in Ben Caspit’s column that this concerns him from a source close to Netanyahu. If it seems to anyone that I’m a plaything, think again. Unbelievable.”