Caspit Slams Segal Over Remarks on Former Netanyahu Aide

Journalist Ben Caspit fiercely criticized fellow journalist Erel Segal for his remarks about retired Major General Avi Gill, who served as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's military secretary. The dispute arose after Gill gave an interview to Channel 12 discussing the events leading up to the October 7th Hamas attack. In the interview, Gill claimed significant discrepancies existed between the actual events and the information publicly released. He also alleged that a record of a conversation he had with Netanyahu's Chief of Staff, Tzachi Braverman, on the morning of the attack was falsified, with the time changed from 6:40 AM to 6:29 AM.

In response to Gill's interview, Segal attacked Gill and other senior military officials on the program "HaPatriotim," questioning their combat experience. "Avi Gill's combat experience is less than that of a sergeant in the Giv'ati Brigade today, because all these people did not fight wars," Segal stated, linking this perceived lack of experience to the failures that led to the October 7th intelligence failures.

Caspit shared a clip of Segal's comments on X (formerly Twitter) and condemned Segal's remarks. "And you ask yourself, what kind of person do you have to be to lie like this, to slander like this a person who dedicated 35 years of his life to fighting for Israel's security. What kind of scum do you have to be to do this? And for whom?" Caspit wrote.

Nearly three years after the October 7th attack and less than three weeks before elections, the question of responsibility for the failures remains a central public debate. Discussions about the events of that morning, the information provided to decision-makers, and the accountability of political and military leadership continue to spark sharp disagreements.