Knesset Committee Votes 11-3 to Grant Likud MK Gotliv Immunity for Exposing Active Shin Bet Agent Identity

The Knesset House Committee voted 11-3 on June 15 to recommend granting Likud MK Tally Gotliv immunity from prosecution over her May indictment for publishing a Shin Bet officer's identity in a January 2024 social media post that linked him to alleged pre-October 7 Hamas contacts 12. All eleven supporting votes came from coalition members; the three opposed were opposition lawmakers from Yisrael Beytenu and Yesh Atid 1. Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara presented the panel with a classified Shin Bet professional assessment finding the disclosure endangered the officer, his children, and his family during wartime 13. Gotliv acknowledged to the panel that she published the information knowingly and views her actions as justified; the immunity grant requires final ratification by the full Knesset plenum 14.