Barak Ravid reports, citing a senior Israeli official, that the Foreign Ministry ran a campaign to recruit countries to vote for the dismissal of the prosecutor. The specific prosecutor was not named in the report.
The report, attributed to a senior Israeli official, is published against the backdrop of a series of recent reports about Israeli influence operations. Earlier this month, Time magazine reported that Israel ran an influence campaign targeting the Trump administration over the Iran MOU. The claim that the Foreign Ministry recruited countries to vote for the prosecutor's dismissal, if confirmed, would represent a significant escalation in Israel's efforts to counter legal challenges. The report does not specify which prosecutor is referred to, and it is based on a single source that has not been independently corroborated.
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