Netanyahu ordered illegal shredding of docs at his office before Bennett took over, sources say - Israel News

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  • Netanyahu ordered illegal shredding of docs at his office before Bennett took over, sources say - Israel News - Haaretz.com
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    The material was kept in safes in the so-called ‘aquarium,’ where prime ministers and their most senior aides sit. It’s unclear which, or how many, documents were destroyed at Netanyahu’s orders

    Documents stored in safes in the Prime Minister’s Office were shredded on Sunday, in violation of the law, shortly before Prime Minister Naftali Bennett took office.

    People who worked at the office under former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was he who ordered the documents shredded. It was not immediately clear which documents were destroyed or how many.[…]

    • ’Severe shock’: Netanyahu left scorched earth for Bennett at Prime Minister’s Office - Israel News - Haaretz.com
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      The reason for Netanyahu’s 30-minute briefing with Bennett is that there was simply nothing to pass on, senior political says

      The 30 minutes that former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was kind enough to give his successor were to have covered 12 years of his rule, part of which was almost autocratic. That, of course, was a joke. Except that it wasn’t funny.

      Dozens of private diplomatic conversations with world leaders, agreements and understandings that go unmentioned in meeting minutes, the Iranian nuclear issues or strategic ties with the American government about which private conversations were held with Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump: All of these remain in Netanyahu’s notebooks and his memory, as if they were his private possession. The heads of the intelligence community who briefed Bennett know only some of these issues – what they were told.
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