Likud Activist Urich Posts Eisenkot Video, Faces Hacking Claims
Translated & summarized from Israel Hayom by baba
Likud activist Yonatan Urich released a video mocking Knesset Member Gadi Eisenkot's past statements about potential cooperation with Mansour Abbas. Urich's lawyers subsequently threatened legal action against those who allegedly hacked his WhatsApp, altered messages, and published them. This comes as a pirate website plans to release private correspondences attributed to Urich, following a report that his WhatsApp was exposed via an external service.
The story in 5 lines · by baba
- Likud activist Yonatan Urich released a video mocking MK Gadi Eisenkot's past remarks on Mansour Abbas.
- Urich's lawyers threatened legal action against those who allegedly hacked his WhatsApp and published messages.
- A pirate website announced plans to publish private correspondences attributed to Urich.
- The video suggested Eisenkot and Lieberman would form a left-wing government with Arab parties.
- Urich's WhatsApp was reportedly exposed via an external message management service in late September.
Likud activist Yonatan Urich posted a video on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday, captioned "Eisenkot Hacked," featuring clips of Knesset Member Gadi Eisenkot discussing Mansour Abbas and potential future political cooperation. The video shows Eisenkot watching Abbas speak and smiling, with Eisenkot heard saying he had followed Abbas for the past year. It also includes Eisenkot's remarks on recognizing a Palestinian state and the possibility of Abbas joining a future government. The video concludes with a message from the Likud party stating that Eisenkot and Avigdor Lieberman would form a left-wing government with Yair Golan and Arab parties.
Shortly after Urich's post, his lawyers, Amit Haddad and Noa Milstein, issued a statement addressing the dissemination of private correspondences attributed to him. They threatened legal action against whoever allegedly hacked Urich's WhatsApp account, altered the conversations, and published them. "Whoever hacked Yonatan Urich's WhatsApp and published personal correspondences, while adding and changing the conversations, will pay the full price," the lawyers stated. They added that legal action would also be taken against anyone publishing, distributing, or sharing the messages, deeming such actions criminal offenses.
This development follows an announcement by a newly launched pirate website that it intends to publish private correspondences attributed to Urich in the coming days. Reports from late September indicated that Urich's personal WhatsApp account was connected to an external message management service, which allegedly exposed the account's communications and media to the service.
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