Published: November 8, 2026 · 6:00 PM Israel time
⚖️ Israel Hayom examines the dispute over suspected election interference: An Israel Hayom analysis described the election investigation as the most serious of the controversies surrounding Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Zini. It framed the dispute as a collision between fears about foreign interference in elections and fears about political use of the security service.
According to the analysis, the right sees Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara as functioning like an opposition leader and obstructing an investigation into suspected foreign interference and electoral manipulation, drawing a parallel with the Military Advocate General affair.
The opposition, in the article’s account, sees a Shin Bet chief appointed by Netanyahu advancing a scandal that fits the prime minister’s political narrative at an exceptionally sensitive moment.
During a hearing with Justice Solberg, Zini said: “Imagine discovering that Likud was funded from head to toe by Russia,” adding: “Would that invalidate the elections, or would we say that because we couldn’t identify a specific polling station, everything was fine?”
Israel Hayom reported that Zini believes Baharav-Miara is deliberately delaying the matter for political reasons. The analysis also highlighted the tension between that allegation and Zini’s public statement on Election Day that the elections had been conducted properly.
Zini described the intelligence timeline:
“Before the elections, we had general intelligence. At noon on Election Day, reports came in confirming that the phenomenon was occurring across the country, involving both Arab parties.
Free fuel cards, numerous reports along the lines of: ‘Vote for us and get 200 shekels; bring your family and get 600 dollars.’”
Drawing an analogy from the Golan Heights, his home region, Zini said:
“Imagine someone tells you that a cubic meter of poisoned water has been released from Mount Hermon. Later, you discover poisoned water in the Banias River. Do you close your eyes, ignore it, and say it’s all a coincidence?”
The Israel Hayom analysis considered Solberg’s position legally sound: even if all the allegations proved accurate, insufficient specific polling stations could be identified for invalidation. It also argued that Zini was right to regard the allegations as deeply disturbing.
At the same time, the article accepted Baharav-Miara’s concern that the Shin Bet sought to use measures of a kind not previously employed, or at least not since the period when the service acted against political opponents under David Ben-Gurion.
The analysis contrasted allegations that enormous sums of foreign money had manipulated Israeli democracy with allegations that an intelligence service, led by an outsider appointed by the leader of a rival party, was itself threatening the democratic process.
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