Jerusalem: Israel’s defence minister called Friday for the security services to intervene to stop cabinet leaks after details were broadcast of a confidential military briefing urging increased aid for the West Bank to avert new violence.
Leaks from meetings of Israel’s security cabinet are not uncommon even though it handles the most sensitive government issues.
They are a regular source of finger-pointing between the small number of top ministers who are members.
But Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said a red line had been crossed with the leaking of details of last Sunday’s briefing by armed forces chief of staff Lieutenant General Gadi Eisenkot.
In the briefing, Eisenkot warned ministers there was a likelihood of increased violence in the occupied West Bank as well as the Gaza Strip, Israel’s privately
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