Assessment of widespread corruption in Israel's parliamentary elections David Zini, head of the Shin Bet, exposed the widespread corruption in Israel's parliamentary elections and the large amount of "foreign money" that came in to influence the elections. David Zini increased his estimate of the suspected amount of money 3 times within a few days and presented different and contradictory data. So this amount reached 100 million shekels (about 31.2 million US dollars) within a few weeks.