June 21, 2021: Baaghi TV reports that former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu destroyed all documents before evacuating the Prime Minister’s House.
According to the Israeli newspaper, former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had ordered his staff to destroy all documents before the new prime minister took office. According to the order, his staff has shredded all documents.
Documents that were set on fire from former Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office noted future plans, permanent work, assignments to officers, and other documents that were destroyed. Former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has denied the allegations in a statement issued Friday stating that similar, baseless allegations concerning him have been made more than once.
Officials at the Prime Minister’s Office are reportedly commencing preliminary investigations regarding whether ousted premier Benjamin Netanyahu ordered staffers to destroy papers at the office prior to the handover to his successor.
Allegations surfaced that aides in the PMO had destroyed documents that had been stored in safes in a part of the office where Netanyahu and other top officials had desks, at the behest of the Likud leader. The Likud faction denied the shredding allegations as “totally false” adding that not only were the claims absurd but all the documents had been digitally preserved.
Yaakov Lozowick, who was the state’s chief archivist from 2011 to 2018, told Army Radio Friday that if the materials were shredded, there may not have been a digital copy, reported The Times of Israel.
“If they are shredding documents in the prime minister’s bureau, it would seem it’s not information that other people have, so it stands to reason that we’re talking about the most sensitive materials,” he said.
The incoming head of the Knesset’s Constitution Law and Justice Committee, Labor MK Gilad Kariv, called on Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to open an investigation of his own.
Netanyahu, 71, has been Israel’s longest-serving prime minister and will now remain in the opposition as leader of the Likud party.
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