Channel 12 news commentator Amit Segal did not deny that he published an internal Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) document on air, thereby automatically triggering a Shin Bet investigation concerning the leak that led to the arrest of A', who leaked the document to him in violation of the law.

Segal was confronted with allegations of Recklessness (April 19) on Meet the Press on Channel 12. The show opened with a conversation between Segal and his co-host of the program, Maariv commentator Ben Caspit, about the affair. After opening with a joke, Segal repeated the main points of the campaign he is running against the leak investigation, and Caspit responded that his broadcasting of a classified document from the Shin Bet forced the organization to open an investigation. Segal did not deny and changed the subject.

The program opened with a collection of clips related to the affair, in one of which Channel 12's military commentator Nir Dvori says, "We must say here that leaking information requires an investigation, and that's the point here, not to get confused."

Segal opened and said that this is selective enforcement and that the investigation was opened only because his publication personally harmed Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar.

Caspit responded and said that if the document had passed to Prime Minister Netanyahu and Netanyahu had leaked the document to Segal, no investigation would have been opened, but the moment an internal document of an intelligence organization like the Shin Bet is published, with a serial number and handwritten notes by the head of the organization, "a document that no one had seen," then the head of the organization must "open an investigation and find the mole he has in the organization."

Segal hastily interrupted Caspit's words and said he "'wants to clarify a point," and changed the subject of the conversation.

Israel has been in the midst of a regime coup in recent years, in which Netanyahu's government is trying to undermine all centers of power in the state - from the judicial and security systems, through the civil service to the media - through legislation, appointments and Smear campaigns.

Amit Segal is the most popular journalist associated with Netanyahu's government and is considered by many to be the representative of the accused PM Netanyahu on Channel 12 News, which is the most watched news program in Israel.

Recently, Netanyahu and his Poison Machine have been targeting Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, whose organization was linked to the exposure of several criminal affairs in Netanyahu's office: his close advisors received money from Qatar (the Persian Gulf emirate that supports Hamas) during wartime, to serve its interests. According to suspicion, they even used the official spokesperson mechanism of the Prime Minister's Office for this purpose.

It was also revealed that those same advisors leaked secret documents, contrary to law and without any authorization, in order to serve the Propaganda campaign that Netanyahu is conducting against the Israeli public as part of the systematic torpedoing of deals that would bring the return of the hostages in Gaza and end the raging war since October 2023. According to investigation materials, Netanyahu was a full partner in the conspiracy.

The Shin Bet leak affair, in which retired Shin Bet officer A' (who returned to service after the October 7 massacre) was arrested after he leaked to journalists Amit Segal and Shirit Avitan-Cohen and Minister Amichai Chikli, is in this sense a distraction from the other affairs, exploited by Netanyahu supporters as a tool to continue attacking the Shin Bet and its head.

The leaker A' passed secret documents to Segal about an examination conducted by the Shin Bet on suspicion of infiltration of Jewish terrorist elements into the National Security Ministry, after the minister appointed by Netanyahu, Itamar Ben-Gvir, himself a convicted criminal for terrorism support offenses, gathered around the ministry elements also involved in Jewish terrorism.

But Segal and his editors at Channel 12 News could not restrain themselves and published on air not only details about the investigation, but also a photograph of the document and exact quotes from it. From here, as was the case in the Anat Kam affair, after publishing an internal IDF document in the newspaper, a Shin Bet investigation was opened that led to exposing the leaker.

Segal is running a campaign against the investigation, including spreading the claim that the Shin Bet reached the leaker because they conducted wiretapping of journalists' phones. This claim was denied by all relevant authorities, no evidence was presented for it, and Segal himself stopped spreading it. But it seems that after the reckless move by Segal and Channel 12 News, there was no need at all for such draconian investigative measures to reach the leaker.