The WhatsApp account of Yonatan Urich, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has apparently been hacked and leaked online. A website created specifically in the past 24 hours is threatening to expose the adviser's private conversations, while several social media accounts have begun circulating what they claim are excerpts from internal chats.
Among the conversations circulating on social media are purported exchanges Urich held with former Netanyahu adviser Topaz Luk, as well as with commentator Amit Segal and media figure Yaakov Bardugo. At this stage, it is unclear whether the content is authentic material leaked from the device, or whether the materials, screenshots or images were created and edited using artificial intelligence tools.
Under Israeli privacy law, it is prohibited to publish personal material hacked from a citizen's phone unlawfully, and we will not be publishing the conversations.
