TEL AVIV — A scandal over a leak of top-secret military documents, allegedly involving the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has rocked Israel’s political establishment in a wartime country still reeling from last year’s Hamas attacks.
Israeli media has linked the leak to two articles that appeared in foreign outlets — Britain’s Jewish Chronicle and Germany’s Bild — in early September. Both articles, which were immediately called into question by Israel’s military, claimed to be based on internal Hamas documents that showed the Palestinian militant group had no intention of releasing the hostages it captured on Oct. 7.