An investigation in the "Ovda" program on Channel 12 revealed that a former employee of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, close to the former director general of the ministry, Yossi Shelli, passed on "incriminating" information against activists on the Arab list on the morning of the Israeli elections.
The investigation shows that the role of Netanyahu's office goes beyond filing an official complaint to refer the police to an alleged "intelligence source", since this information was included in the police system and formed the basis for carrying out raids and arrests in the city of Rahat in the Negev without a judicial warrant, even though the arrests yielded no results.
In the Office of the Attorney General and in the Department of Investigations, police officers are investigating suspicions that this information was planted on purpose, after Netanyahu, the Likud campaign and Channel 14 used these arrests to promote the "The Arabs are stealing the elections" campaign and to cast doubt on the results without actual evidence.