{"id":568297,"date":"2026-02-05T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/568297\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:44:09","slug":"shin-bet-chiefs-brother-indicted-in-gaza-smuggling-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/568297\/","title":{"rendered":"Shin Bet chief’s brother indicted in Gaza smuggling affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bezalel Zini<\/a>, brother of Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) Chief David Zini, was indicted on Thursday for his role in the organization smuggling goods into Gaza.<\/p>\n

Zini, along with other defendants<\/a>, was charged with aiding the enemy during wartime, prohibited dealings in property for terror purposes, obtaining something by aggravated fraud, and accepting bribes.<\/p>\n

According to the indictment, Zini was approached by one of his soldiers during his time as commander in the IDF sometime in August, 2025. He was offered and allegedly accepted a bribe, allowing for goods to be illegally smuggled into the Gaza Strip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Zini went on to participate in three separate smuggling operations, during which he allegedly made a profit of approximately NIS 365,000.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say the operation revolved primarily around the smuggling of tobacco products and cigarettes<\/a>, but also included other items such as mobile phones, batteries, vehicle parts, communication cables, heating and electrical equipment, and additional supplies. Zini’s smuggling consisted of only cigarettes and tobacco.<\/p>\n

The indictments describe cigarettes as a particularly profitable commodity, alleging that the movement of tobacco into Gaza generated hundreds of millions of shekels for Hamas since the start of the war in a way that prosecutors say aided it financially and in its control over the population.<\/p>\n

Sarah Ben-Nun and Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bezalel Zini, brother of Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) Chief David Zini, was indicted on Thursday for his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":568298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4219,240513,4527,99,50,45271,21171],"class_list":["post-568297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-crime","tag-david-zini","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-shin-bet","tag-smuggling"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116018561855903917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}