Normally, the recording system is in automatic operation and records everything that takes place in the command center at army headquarters, but immediately after the war started, the PM ordered all recordings to be turned off. The army complied with this order.
ed note–a short list of items the pariculars of which Netanyahu did not want being recorded–
1. Israeli foreknowledge of/assistance with the Oct. 7th attacks…
2. Israel’s plans for widening the war in Gaza to include Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, etc…
3. Israel’s plans for perpetrating false flag attacks against Russia, such as those that took place at the Crocus music festival and then blamed on ISIS…
4. Israel’s plans for perpetrating false flag attacks against America and Europe, including with the use of nukes and lab-engineered viruses…
5. Israel’s plans for assassinating Donald Trump and installing Nikki Haley as POTUS
Haaretz
As soon as the war with Hamas began on October 7, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered that the army’s recording system be turned off in the command center at army headquarters, which is where all security cabinet meetings and other defense-related meetings were being held in those days. The army complied with this order.
Normally, a recording system is in automatic operation and records everything that happens there. But Netanyahu insisted that security cabinet meetings and any other meetings he specified would be recorded or transcribed only by the Prime Minister’s Office, not by the Israel Defense Forces.
The order was transmitted by Netanyahu’s former military secretary, Maj. Gen. Avi Gil, to the two army officers responsible for the command center’s operations – the head of the Operations Directorate and the head of the Operations Brigade.
On October 12, five days after the war began, Channel 13 television reported that the Prime Minister’s Office had barred the IDF from recording the security cabinet meetings that were taking place at the time and asked IDF officers to leave any recording devices outside the room. It did so even though the IDF routinely records security cabinet meetings, to aid it in translating any decisions reached at these meetings into orders in the field.
A few weeks later, a security guard from the Prime Minister’s Office even demanded that she be allowed to search the items brought in by IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi to make sure he wasn’t carrying a recording device.
As soon as the security situation made this possible, Netanyahu moved all the security cabinet meetings to his Tel Aviv office, which is located in the same compound as army headquarters. A source in Netanyahu’s circles said he preferred to have the meetings in a place he controlled rather than trusting the IDF not to record the meetings.
Last week, journalist Nadav Eyal reported that Avi Gil, the former military secretary, contacted Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara several months ago and warned her that Netanyahu’s bureau had tried to alter protocols from meetings conducted during the war.
And in November, Gidi Weitz reported in Haaretz that Tzachi Braverman, Netanyahu’s chief of staff, had asked the cabinet secretary’s office to give him classified summaries of security cabinet meetings held by the previous government. In addition, Braverman asked the stenographers’ pool in the Prime Minister’s Office to give him full protocols of those meetings.
The Prime Minister’s Office responded to the report, stating that ‘in accordance with government regulations, all government meetings and ministerial committees are recorded by the Prime Minister’s Office stenographers only. The discussions of the security cabinet are also recorded by the PMO, even if they take place at military sites.’