President Isaac Herzog met with the Shin Bet director and the head of the Central Elections Committee on Thursday to discuss election security, warning against foreign digital influence and urging that elections should not be seen as a civil war, according to The Jerusalem Post.
President Isaac Herzog met with Shin Bet Director David Zini and Central Elections Committee Chair Justice Noam Solberg at the President's Residence on Thursday morning, in a meeting convened at Zini's initiative. During the meeting, Herzog warned that foreign digital actors are seeking to sabotage the election process and stressed that elections should not be seen as a civil war. The meeting was pre-scheduled and unrelated to recent controversies, according to reports.
The meeting followed a series of clarifications from Zini regarding the Shin Bet's subordination on election matters. At 11:24 Jerusalem, The Zioneer reported that Zini told Herzog and Solberg that the agency is directly subordinate to the election committee chairman. Earlier, on June 30, The Zioneer reported that Herzog previously stated that elections are not a civil war. On July 1, the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee held a hearing on threats to the electoral system.
As The Zioneer reported on July 7, Herzog warned that internal discord endangers national cohesion. On July 8, he made a statement seen as a rebuke to Zini, saying state institutions belong to everyone.
Specific details of the meeting's agenda and whether new measures were agreed upon have not been disclosed.
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