Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former military secretary, Avi Gil, told N12 News and Israel Hayom on Thursday that Netanyahu’s chief of staff allegedly tried to change the official record of the prime minister’s schedule. Shortly before leaving his position, Gil made sure the entire contents of his notebooks were digitized and stored on a classified computer in the Military Intelligence Directorate. “A state commission of inquiry will receive everything I have on the day it is established, including what I have to say,” he clarified. He explained in the interview that at the end of October 2023, weeks after the start of the war, several people approached him about collecting transcripts of the day.
Recounting the hours leading up to the attack, Gil said intelligence reports circulated through the security establishment’s systems overnight, reaching computers in the offices of the head of the Research Division and the Military Intelligence Directorate. At 3:55 a.m., an intelligence assistant received an alert about a message detailing suspicious actions near the Gaza border that were called “routine,” and it said another consultation would take place later that day. Based on that, the assistant decided not to wake either the prime minister or the military secretary, believing the situation was not urgent enough to warrant doing so.
