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| + | | name = Sima Vaknin-Gil | ||
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| + | | occupation = Former Israeli military chief censor; Director-General, Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy (late 2015 – 2019) | ||
| + | | known_for = Running the Ministry of Strategic Affairs campaign against BDS | ||
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==Career== | ==Career== | ||
[[File:Sima Vaknin-Gil INSS Conf 24 Jan 17.png|thumb|right|400px|[[Sima Vaknin-Gil]] at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) on 24 January 2017 speaking in a panel discussion: BDS and Israel's Delegitimization in 2017: Where To? Uploaded to YouTube on 29 January 2017.]] | [[File:Sima Vaknin-Gil INSS Conf 24 Jan 17.png|thumb|right|400px|[[Sima Vaknin-Gil]] at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) on 24 January 2017 speaking in a panel discussion: BDS and Israel's Delegitimization in 2017: Where To? Uploaded to YouTube on 29 January 2017.]] | ||
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==Activities== | ==Activities== | ||
| − | When Sima Vaknin-Gil took over as director-general of Israel’s [[Ministry of Strategic Affairs]] at the start of 2016, a crucial fact went largely unnoticed. | + | The Electronic Intifada reports: |
| + | :When Sima Vaknin-Gil took over as director-general of Israel’s [[Ministry of Strategic Affairs]] at the start of 2016, a crucial fact went largely unnoticed. For years, she had been a high-ranking officer with an Israeli spy agency. This means that for the last two years a former intelligence officer has been running Israel’s global war against BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.<ref> Asa Winstanley [https://archive.vn/f0Nlg Meet the spies injecting Israeli propaganda into your news feed] ''Electronic Intifada'' Retrieved from Archive.today of 25 June 2020 on 25 June 2020.</ref> | ||
| − | + | ===2016 Israeli American Council Conference=== | |
| − | + | Vaknin-Gil spoke on a panel during the conference where she stated: | |
| − | + | :"We have three different sub-campaigns: Data gathering, working on activist organisations, money trail. This is something that only a country, with its resources, can do the best. We have FDD. We have others working on this.""<ref> Max Blumenthal, @MaxBlumenthal, [https://archive.vn/zTf4u Here's Sima Vaknin-Gil, Director General of Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs, describing DC think tank @FDD as an Israeli government agent. From Al Jazeera's censored The Lobby - USA] ''Twitter'' Published on 13 August 2020, Retrieved from Archive.today of 17 November 2020 on 17 November June 2020.</ref> | |
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* building global tool for media campaigns | * building global tool for media campaigns | ||
* setting up media centers in Europe | * setting up media centers in Europe | ||
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| + | == Leaked emails and documents == | ||
| + | According to emails from a cache attributed to [[Benny Gantz]] that was released in 2025 by the hacking group [[Handala]], which [[Distributed Denial of Secrets]] (DDoSecrets) says is "believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence", and published by DDoSecrets. The authenticity of the emails has not been independently verified.<ref name="DDoSGantz">Distributed Denial of Secrets, [https://ddosecrets.org/article/benny-gantz-emails Benny Gantz emails] ''ddosecrets.org'', 27 August 2025, accessed 21 October 2026. DDoSecrets says the emails "were released by Handala, a hacking group that is believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence", and applies its "Cyberwar" disclaimer.</ref> An email of 9 May 2016 from [[Assaf Orion]] of the [[Institute for National Security Studies]] (INSS) said that "a representative of Sima's was embedded in our work" on an INSS assessment of BDS. It also said Vaknin-Gil had made clear to [[Gilad Erdan]] "that the government will not give direction on content in projects it funds, such as the IDC media rooms" (translated from Hebrew).<ref name="GzOrion9May2016">Benny Gantz emails (released by Handala, published by Distributed Denial of Secrets), email from Assaf Orion (INSS), 9 May 2016 (Hebrew), archive path <code>beny/Inbox!5/0000003601</code>, [https://ddosecrets.org/article/benny-gantz-emails dataset page] ''ddosecrets.org'', accessed 21 October 2026. Leaked email; authenticity not independently verified.</ref> In a further email of 1 June 2016, Orion said she intended [[Tzahi Gavrieli]], "her future deputy", to lead the "virtual network infrastructure of the Blues" (the pro-Israel network) (translated from Hebrew).<ref name="GzOrion1Jun2016">Benny Gantz emails (released by Handala, published by Distributed Denial of Secrets), email from Assaf Orion (INSS) on a call with Sima Vaknin-Gil, 1 June 2016 (Hebrew), archive path <code>beny/Inbox!5/0000003360</code>, [https://ddosecrets.org/article/benny-gantz-emails dataset page] ''ddosecrets.org'', accessed 21 October 2026. Leaked email; authenticity not independently verified.</ref> [[Jack Poulson]] first reported that this email described her plan as "Aman for the poor" and her choice of [[Sagi Balasha]] to run the government company, adding "Milstein will be happy".<ref name="Poulson2025Gantz">[[Jack Poulson]], [https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/leak-indicates-billionaire-funders Leak indicates billionaire funders of Israeli cyber campaign targeting anti-apartheid activists] ''All-Source Intelligence'' (Substack), 17 September 2025, updated 27 September 2025.</ref> | ||
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| + | At a meeting with Erdan and INSS on 14 June 2016, according to the minutes, Vaknin-Gil said that "a robust civilian intelligence organisation must be set up to support the campaign". She also said the planned public-benefit company was aiming for NIS 40 million from government and NIS 40 million from donors, and that "a better term than 'partnerships'" was needed because in government the word was associated with contracts or with competition with the Foreign Ministry (translated from Hebrew).<ref name="GzErdanMtg2016">Benny Gantz emails (released by Handala, published by Distributed Denial of Secrets), email from Assaf Orion (INSS), "BDS and delegitimisation: main points of meeting with Minister Gilad Erdan – 14 June", 15 June 2016, with attached INSS presentation of 13 June 2016 (Hebrew), archive path <code>beny/Inbox!5/0000003261</code>, [https://ddosecrets.org/article/benny-gantz-emails dataset page] ''ddosecrets.org'', accessed 21 October 2026. Leaked email; authenticity not independently verified.</ref> | ||
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| + | Leaked Israeli Ministry of Justice documents, published by [[Distributed Denial of Secrets]] in 2024 and not independently verified, record that Vaknin-Gil attended a meeting chaired by Deputy Attorney General [[Dina Zilber]] on 6 August 2018 on the US activity of [[Kela Shlomo]] in light of the [[Foreign Agents Registration Act]].<ref name="DDoSMoJ">Distributed Denial of Secrets, [https://ddosecrets.org/article/israel-ministry-of-justice Israel Ministry of Justice] ''ddosecrets.org'', 25 July 2024, accessed 21 October 2026. DDoSecrets lists the dataset in its "Cyberwar" category, warning of "an increased chance of malware, ulterior motives and altered or implanted data".</ref><ref name="MoJMeeting2018">Israel Ministry of Justice leak (Distributed Denial of Secrets), Ministry of Justice letter summarising the 6 August 2018 meeting on Kela Shlomo activity in the US and FARA, 16 September 2018 (Hebrew), [https://search.libraryofleaks.org/entities/9602525.5d1e2f640ec8df11666cce65a4023ec3a5578537 Library of Leaks entity 9602525] ''Library of Leaks'', accessed 21 October 2026. Leaked document; authenticity not independently verified.</ref> | ||
==Contact== | ==Contact== | ||
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| + | == Ministry of Strategic Affairs == | ||
| + | Vaknin-Gil, a former chief military censor, became director-general of the [[Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy]] at the end of 2015, when it had three employees; by late 2017 the staff had grown roughly tenfold.<ref name="7E272146">Itamar Benzaquen, [https://www.the7eye.org.il/272146 תחקיר העין השביעית: ממשלת ישראל מפעילה רשת בינלאומית של תעמולה סמויה במאות מיליוני שקלים] (Seventh Eye investigation: the Israeli government operates an international network of covert propaganda worth hundreds of millions of shekels) ''[[The Seventh Eye]]'', 24 December 2017 (Hebrew; critical), read via the Internet Archive, accessed 21 October 2026.</ref> She told the Knesset that "one of the things that most characterises our work is a No Logo policy", and that the "logic of the campaign, which is also a logic approved by the Prime Minister, is that we run it in ambiguity" (translated from Hebrew).<ref name="7E272146" /> Asked by the Knesset transparency committee in August 2016 what winning meant, she said it meant that the "narrative in the world won't be that Israel equals apartheid".<ref name="Blau2017">[[Uri Blau]], [https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2017-03-26/ty-article-magazine/inside-the-clandestine-world-of-israels-bds-busting-ministry/0000017f-e160-df7c-a5ff-e37ace710000 Inside the Clandestine World of Israel's 'BDS-busting' Ministry] ''Haaretz'', 26 March 2017, accessed 21 October 2026.</ref> | ||
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| + | According to minutes of a 14 June 2016 meeting with minister [[Gilad Erdan]] and the [[Institute for National Security Studies]], found in a leak of [[Benny Gantz]]'s emails whose authenticity has not been independently verified, she said the planned public-benefit company was aiming at "NIS 40m government + 40m from donors", and that "a robust civilian intelligence organisation must be set up to support the campaign" (translated from Hebrew).<ref name="GzErdanMtg2016_b">Benny Gantz emails (released by [[Handala]], published by Distributed Denial of Secrets), email from Assaf Orion (INSS), "BDS and delegitimisation: main points of meeting with Minister Gilad Erdan – 14 June", 15 June 2016, with attached INSS presentation of 13 June 2016 (Hebrew), archive path <code>beny/Inbox!5/0000003261</code>, [https://ddosecrets.org/article/benny-gantz-emails dataset page] ''ddosecrets.org'', accessed 21 October 2026. Leaked email; authenticity not independently verified. DDoSecrets says Handala is "believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence".</ref> Under the 2018 contract with [[Kela Shlomo]] (later [[Concert - Together for Israel|Concert]]), as described in the state's response to a High Court petition, decisions rested with her and the company's chair until the first donor arrived.<ref name="7E312203">Itamar Benzaquen and others, [https://www.the7eye.org.il/312203 המשרד לנושאים אסטרטגיים מכחיש כי הוא אוסף מידע על ישראלים] (The Strategic Affairs Ministry denies that it collects information on Israelis) ''The Seventh Eye'', 10 December 2018 (Hebrew; critical), read via the Internet Archive, accessed 21 October 2026.</ref> At a 2019 gathering she said that "Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Holland, and other states that we will not reveal yet, are, in fact, canceling their allocations, budgets, grants to BDS organizations … No money? No activity."<ref name="Munayyer2024">[[Yousef Munayyer]], "Closing Spaces Beyond Borders: Israel's Transnational Repression Network", in [[Zaha Hassan]] and [[H.A. Hellyer]] (eds), ''Suppressing Dissent: Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression and Palestine–Israel'', London: Oneworld Academic, 2024 (open access, CC BY 4.0; critical), pp. 187–200.</ref> | ||
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| + | == Later activity == | ||
| + | ''The Guardian'' described her in 2024 as a former "liaison to Concert in the Israeli government" who had become managing director of the [[Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy]] (ISGAP) and was a board member of the [[Combat Antisemitism Movement]].<ref name="FangPoulson2024">[[Lee Fang]] and [[Jack Poulson]], [https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/israel-fund-us-university-protest-gaza-antisemitism Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war] ''[[The Guardian]]'', 24 June 2024 (critical), accessed 21 October 2026.</ref> | ||
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| + | == The Lobby – USA == | ||
| + | Vaknin-Gil appears in ''[[The Lobby – USA]]'', an undercover [[Al Jazeera]] documentary filmed in 2016 that was never broadcast; ''[[The Electronic Intifada]]'' published all four episodes in 2018.<ref name="EI2018">The Electronic Intifada, [https://electronicintifada.net/content/watch-film-israel-lobby-didnt-want-you-see/25876 Watch the film the Israel lobby didn't want you to see] ''The Electronic Intifada'', November 2018 (critical), accessed 21 October 2026.</ref> At the [[Israeli American Council]]'s annual conference, shown in the film, she said the government had "the budget" and could "bring things to the table that are quite different".<ref name="Gresh2018">[[Alain Gresh]], [https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-israel-spies-on-us-citizens/ How Israel Spies on US Citizens] ''[[The Nation]]'', 31 August 2018 (critical), accessed 21 October 2026.</ref> In another clip she says: "We have three different sub-campaigns which are very, very sensitive, regarding data gathering, information analysis, working on activist organization, money trail. This is something that only a country with its resources can do the best."<ref name="LobbyUSA">[[Al Jazeera]] Investigative Unit, ''The Lobby – USA'', episode 1 (from about 4:58) and episode 3 (about 28:52–29:21), filmed 2016, not broadcast; published by ''The Electronic Intifada'' in 2018, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lSjXhMUVKE episode 1] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm-Dm4pO0xY episode 3] (critical), accessed 21 October 2026. Wording checked against the episode captions.</ref> A shorter cut of the clip in episode three ends: "We have FDD, we have others working on this", naming the [[Foundation for Defense of Democracies]].<ref name="LobbyUSA" /><ref name="Gresh2018" /> | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:22, 21 October 2026
| Sima Vaknin-Gil
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| Image |  Sima Vaknin-Gil |
| Occupation | Former Israeli military chief censor; Director-General, Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy (late 2015 – 2019) |
| Known for | Running the Ministry of Strategic Affairs campaign against BDS |
Career
- Chief Censor, The State of Israel, Aug 2005 – Aug 2015.[1]
- Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy, Director General. December 2015 - June 2019
- She states that this role involved “building the Ministry’s operational task force” which consisted of “combating Delegitimization of Israel and the BDS campaign. developing operational perceptions along with prevention and thwarting tools, while developing a positive campaign, creating action networks, initiating legislation, managing and raising budgets and donations and more.” Above this, the Ministry “aimed to coordinate and create a synergy among the pro-Israel factors … and operated with the civil society and with establishments in Israel and abroad.” [2]
- SVG Strategic Consulting Company (Impact solutions), Sep 2019 –
- On Oct 2015 the Israeli government enacted upon the need to take action against the de-legitimazation and boycott campaign , otherwise known as BDS, against the state of Israel and called upon the newly formed Ministry of strategic affairs and public diplomacy to lead the initiative. "I had the honor to form the Task force and together with wonderful people in the Ministry to direct the struggle against this false and vicious campaign", she wrote of the position. [3]
- Strategic Impact Initiative, Sept 2020 - present
- Strategic Impact Ltd was founded by Sima Vaknin Gill & Revital Yakin Krakovsky, as a global strategy and influence company.
SVG & RYK possess vast experience in strategy, intelligence and influence communications in both the public and private sectors. Both SVG & RYK had worked with government entities (local and international), global organizations, the corporate sector and non-profits. The company provides various services, among them developing strategy, tactics and tools needed to address the issue at hand, building and leading professional teams, from full task force to designated teams to address client needs. In this capacity SVG&RYK works with PR, advertising and creative agencies, as well as global polling and research firms. The company founders have enormous practical experience in crisis management from acute operational needs to brand and coalition building. RYK brings expertise in the full cycle of communications: Policy Change; Content Creation; Advertising Campaigns; Public Relation; Crisis Management; Media Partnership; Event & Conferences Planning. Over the years, we were the mastermind behind some of the leading campaigns and PR initiatives in both the Israeli, Jewish & international arena. SVG brings expertise in the full cycle of intelligence work, from monitoring and collection, through analysis process to execution and debrief. The company specialize in formulating and running ‘data and deep research-based’ action plans and large-scale influence campaigns. We work with cutting-edge intelligence companies as well as big data and cyber influence companies. SVG&RYK are universally connected in the Jewish world, from global and local organizations to community leadership and the philanthropic world – donors, family funds and foundation. [3]
Education
- Haifa University
Master's degree, Field Of Study National Security Policy Studies 2004 – 2005
- National Defense College
graduate with greatest honors 2004 – 2005
- Tel Aviv University
Bachelor's degree Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science 1988 – 1990 [3]
Activities
The Electronic Intifada reports:
- When Sima Vaknin-Gil took over as director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs at the start of 2016, a crucial fact went largely unnoticed. For years, she had been a high-ranking officer with an Israeli spy agency. This means that for the last two years a former intelligence officer has been running Israel’s global war against BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.[4]
2016 Israeli American Council Conference
Vaknin-Gil spoke on a panel during the conference where she stated:
- "We have three different sub-campaigns: Data gathering, working on activist organisations, money trail. This is something that only a country, with its resources, can do the best. We have FDD. We have others working on this.""[5]
Affiliations
Vaknin-Gil is on the Board of Advisors at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy [6]
The institute received nearly half a million dollars direct from the Israeli Government in 2018. Although based in New York, USA where groups have to disclose foreign funding, the institute failed to do this claiming that their work was solely academic. [7]
Vaknin-Gil has attended meetings held by ‘Concert Together for Israel’, a private company used by the state of Israel to front its campaign against the BDS movement. [8]
In December 2018, she attended the 3rd Steering committee meeting of the company. The following is what was discussed
- started working in Europe
- begin working in coordination with 10+ online pro-Israel groups
- building a high-tech platform, providing info to pro-Israel groups
- building a strategy
- building global tool for media campaigns
- setting up media centers in Europe
Leaked emails and documents
According to emails from a cache attributed to Benny Gantz that was released in 2025 by the hacking group Handala, which Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) says is "believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence", and published by DDoSecrets. The authenticity of the emails has not been independently verified.[9] An email of 9 May 2016 from Assaf Orion of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) said that "a representative of Sima's was embedded in our work" on an INSS assessment of BDS. It also said Vaknin-Gil had made clear to Gilad Erdan "that the government will not give direction on content in projects it funds, such as the IDC media rooms" (translated from Hebrew).[10] In a further email of 1 June 2016, Orion said she intended Tzahi Gavrieli, "her future deputy", to lead the "virtual network infrastructure of the Blues" (the pro-Israel network) (translated from Hebrew).[11] Jack Poulson first reported that this email described her plan as "Aman for the poor" and her choice of Sagi Balasha to run the government company, adding "Milstein will be happy".[12]
At a meeting with Erdan and INSS on 14 June 2016, according to the minutes, Vaknin-Gil said that "a robust civilian intelligence organisation must be set up to support the campaign". She also said the planned public-benefit company was aiming for NIS 40 million from government and NIS 40 million from donors, and that "a better term than 'partnerships'" was needed because in government the word was associated with contracts or with competition with the Foreign Ministry (translated from Hebrew).[13]
Leaked Israeli Ministry of Justice documents, published by Distributed Denial of Secrets in 2024 and not independently verified, record that Vaknin-Gil attended a meeting chaired by Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber on 6 August 2018 on the US activity of Kela Shlomo in light of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.[14][15]
Contact
Ministry of Strategic Affairs
Vaknin-Gil, a former chief military censor, became director-general of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy at the end of 2015, when it had three employees; by late 2017 the staff had grown roughly tenfold.[16] She told the Knesset that "one of the things that most characterises our work is a No Logo policy", and that the "logic of the campaign, which is also a logic approved by the Prime Minister, is that we run it in ambiguity" (translated from Hebrew).[16] Asked by the Knesset transparency committee in August 2016 what winning meant, she said it meant that the "narrative in the world won't be that Israel equals apartheid".[17]
According to minutes of a 14 June 2016 meeting with minister Gilad Erdan and the Institute for National Security Studies, found in a leak of Benny Gantz's emails whose authenticity has not been independently verified, she said the planned public-benefit company was aiming at "NIS 40m government + 40m from donors", and that "a robust civilian intelligence organisation must be set up to support the campaign" (translated from Hebrew).[18] Under the 2018 contract with Kela Shlomo (later Concert), as described in the state's response to a High Court petition, decisions rested with her and the company's chair until the first donor arrived.[19] At a 2019 gathering she said that "Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Holland, and other states that we will not reveal yet, are, in fact, canceling their allocations, budgets, grants to BDS organizations … No money? No activity."[20]
Later activity
The Guardian described her in 2024 as a former "liaison to Concert in the Israeli government" who had become managing director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) and was a board member of the Combat Antisemitism Movement.[21]
The Lobby – USA
Vaknin-Gil appears in The Lobby – USA, an undercover Al Jazeera documentary filmed in 2016 that was never broadcast; The Electronic Intifada published all four episodes in 2018.[22] At the Israeli American Council's annual conference, shown in the film, she said the government had "the budget" and could "bring things to the table that are quite different".[23] In another clip she says: "We have three different sub-campaigns which are very, very sensitive, regarding data gathering, information analysis, working on activist organization, money trail. This is something that only a country with its resources can do the best."[24] A shorter cut of the clip in episode three ends: "We have FDD, we have others working on this", naming the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.[24][23]
Notes
- ↑ Sima Vakin-Gil LinkedIn Bio LinkedIn Retrieved from Archive.today of 25 June 2020 on 25 June 2020.
- ↑ Sima Vaknin-Gil, LinkedIn, archived on 15 December 2020 at https://archive.vn/Nzqz9 Accessed on 15 December 2020
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sima Vaknin-Gil, LinkedIn, archived on 3 February 2022 at https://archive.ph/wip/OeFDw Accessed on 3 February 2022
- ↑ Asa Winstanley Meet the spies injecting Israeli propaganda into your news feed Electronic Intifada Retrieved from Archive.today of 25 June 2020 on 25 June 2020.
- ↑ Max Blumenthal, @MaxBlumenthal, Here's Sima Vaknin-Gil, Director General of Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs, describing DC think tank @FDD as an Israeli government agent. From Al Jazeera's censored The Lobby - USA Twitter Published on 13 August 2020, Retrieved from Archive.today of 17 November 2020 on 17 November June 2020.
- ↑ Advisors, ISGAP, archived on 15 December 2020 at https://archive.vn/wip/EP60X Accessed on 15 December 2020
- ↑ Aiden Pink, Think tank failed to disclose six-figure grant from Israeli government, Forward, 31 August 2020, archived on 15 December 2020 at https://archive.vn/r1rOh accessed on 15 December 2020
- ↑ Noa Landau, Israel set up a front company to fight bds this is how it failed, Forward, 29 July 2020, archived on 15 December 2020 at https://archive.vn/QS4Oc Accessed on 15 December 2020
- ↑ Distributed Denial of Secrets, Benny Gantz emails ddosecrets.org, 27 August 2025, accessed 21 October 2026. DDoSecrets says the emails "were released by Handala, a hacking group that is believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence", and applies its "Cyberwar" disclaimer.
- ↑ Benny Gantz emails (released by Handala, published by Distributed Denial of Secrets), email from Assaf Orion (INSS), 9 May 2016 (Hebrew), archive path
beny/Inbox!5/0000003601, dataset page ddosecrets.org, accessed 21 October 2026. Leaked email; authenticity not independently verified. - ↑ Benny Gantz emails (released by Handala, published by Distributed Denial of Secrets), email from Assaf Orion (INSS) on a call with Sima Vaknin-Gil, 1 June 2016 (Hebrew), archive path
beny/Inbox!5/0000003360, dataset page ddosecrets.org, accessed 21 October 2026. Leaked email; authenticity not independently verified. - ↑ Jack Poulson, Leak indicates billionaire funders of Israeli cyber campaign targeting anti-apartheid activists All-Source Intelligence (Substack), 17 September 2025, updated 27 September 2025.
- ↑ Benny Gantz emails (released by Handala, published by Distributed Denial of Secrets), email from Assaf Orion (INSS), "BDS and delegitimisation: main points of meeting with Minister Gilad Erdan – 14 June", 15 June 2016, with attached INSS presentation of 13 June 2016 (Hebrew), archive path
beny/Inbox!5/0000003261, dataset page ddosecrets.org, accessed 21 October 2026. Leaked email; authenticity not independently verified. - ↑ Distributed Denial of Secrets, Israel Ministry of Justice ddosecrets.org, 25 July 2024, accessed 21 October 2026. DDoSecrets lists the dataset in its "Cyberwar" category, warning of "an increased chance of malware, ulterior motives and altered or implanted data".
- ↑ Israel Ministry of Justice leak (Distributed Denial of Secrets), Ministry of Justice letter summarising the 6 August 2018 meeting on Kela Shlomo activity in the US and FARA, 16 September 2018 (Hebrew), Library of Leaks entity 9602525 Library of Leaks, accessed 21 October 2026. Leaked document; authenticity not independently verified.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Itamar Benzaquen, תחקיר העין השביעית: ממשלת ישראל מפעילה רשת בינלאומית של תעמולה סמויה במאות מיליוני שקלים (Seventh Eye investigation: the Israeli government operates an international network of covert propaganda worth hundreds of millions of shekels) The Seventh Eye, 24 December 2017 (Hebrew; critical), read via the Internet Archive, accessed 21 October 2026.
- ↑ Uri Blau, Inside the Clandestine World of Israel's 'BDS-busting' Ministry Haaretz, 26 March 2017, accessed 21 October 2026.
- ↑ Benny Gantz emails (released by Handala, published by Distributed Denial of Secrets), email from Assaf Orion (INSS), "BDS and delegitimisation: main points of meeting with Minister Gilad Erdan – 14 June", 15 June 2016, with attached INSS presentation of 13 June 2016 (Hebrew), archive path
beny/Inbox!5/0000003261, dataset page ddosecrets.org, accessed 21 October 2026. Leaked email; authenticity not independently verified. DDoSecrets says Handala is "believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence". - ↑ Itamar Benzaquen and others, המשרד לנושאים אסטרטגיים מכחיש כי הוא אוסף מידע על ישראלים (The Strategic Affairs Ministry denies that it collects information on Israelis) The Seventh Eye, 10 December 2018 (Hebrew; critical), read via the Internet Archive, accessed 21 October 2026.
- ↑ Yousef Munayyer, "Closing Spaces Beyond Borders: Israel's Transnational Repression Network", in Zaha Hassan and H.A. Hellyer (eds), Suppressing Dissent: Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression and Palestine–Israel, London: Oneworld Academic, 2024 (open access, CC BY 4.0; critical), pp. 187–200.
- ↑ Lee Fang and Jack Poulson, Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war The Guardian, 24 June 2024 (critical), accessed 21 October 2026.
- ↑ The Electronic Intifada, Watch the film the Israel lobby didn't want you to see The Electronic Intifada, November 2018 (critical), accessed 21 October 2026.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Alain Gresh, How Israel Spies on US Citizens The Nation, 31 August 2018 (critical), accessed 21 October 2026.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Al Jazeera Investigative Unit, The Lobby – USA, episode 1 (from about 4:58) and episode 3 (about 28:52–29:21), filmed 2016, not broadcast; published by The Electronic Intifada in 2018, episode 1 and episode 3 (critical), accessed 21 October 2026. Wording checked against the episode captions.