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Purported WhatsApp messages from Netanyahu aide Jonatan Urich appear online
Purported screenshots of private WhatsApp conversations involving Jonatan Urich appeared online last week.
Urich is a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is technically employed by the Likud party.
The leak was reported after Urich used AI to create a tool that tracked news coverage, and a security breach was found in the software.
Earlier reports said he had linked his WhatsApp account to a third-party service based in the United Arab Emirates.
Haaretz said it verified the leak and reported that it included sensitive information, such as an email address and password used by Likud.
Israel’s privacy law forbids publishing correspondence obtained through criminal means, and Urich has threatened to sue people who leak or share the messages.
No security body is investigating the leak, according to Haaretz, because Urich is employed by the party rather than the government.
Purported WhatsApp messages from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s senior adviser Jonatan Urich appeared online last week.
Haaretz said it verified the leak and reported that it included sensitive information, including an email address and password used by Netanyahu’s Likud party.
Reports said Urich had used artificial intelligence to build a media-tracking tool and that a security breach followed.
Urich threatened legal action against anyone who leaks, publishes or shares his private messages.
No security body is investigating the leak, according to Haaretz, because Urich is technically employed by Likud rather than the government.
- Who
- Jonatan Urich, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- What
- Purported WhatsApp messages exchanged by Urich with journalists and political strategists appeared online.
- When
- Last week, according to the article published October 11, 2026.
- Where
- Online. The messages were reportedly from Urich’s phone.
- Why
- The reported leak followed a security breach linked to a media-tracking tool Urich reportedly built using AI.
Jonatan Urich
Leakers and publishers of the messages
Publication of messages
Jonatan Urich
Urich said publishing or sharing his private conversations would be a criminal offense and that he would sue.
Leakers and publishers of the messages
Urich said the messages were hacked and that exchanges had been added to or altered; the leakers’ views are not stated.
Whoever hacked [my] WhatsApp and published private conversations while adding to and altering the exchanges will pay the full price
The same will apply to anyone who publishes, distributes or shares the messages. Anyone who does so is committing a criminal offense and will face a personal lawsuit
If Netanyahu can’t protect the phone of the person who is closest to him (who also worked with Qatar during wartime), how will he protect the entry of free fuel from Israel to Hamas?
Haaretz reported that Urich had used Anthropic’s Claude engine to create a tool scanning about 50 news sources every 90 seconds.
Calcalist reported that Urich had linked his WhatsApp account to the UAE-based service Ultramsg.
Purported WhatsApp correspondence from Urich appeared online.
Urich threatened legal action against anyone who leaked, published, distributed or shared his private messages.
- Adviser
- Jonatan Urich, a senior adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu
- Tool
- Reportedly scanned about 50 news sources every 90 seconds
- AI engine
- Anthropic’s Claude
- Messaging service
- Ultramsg, described as UAE-based
- Sensitive information
- A Likud email address and password, according to Haaretz
Sources
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