Every 90 seconds, an AI-assisted program scanned about 50 news sources for mentions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara Netanyahu, Likud, and the party’s political rivals. When it detected something important, it sent a summary to one of two WhatsApp groups.
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The system was designed to give Netanyahu’s political communications operation an immediate view of the news. But a September 24 Haaretz investigation found that longtime Netanyahu adviser Yonatan Urich had left the code publicly accessible on GitHub, a website used to store and share software.
The exposed code contained private
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