Lawmakers have called for a Knesset defense oversight committee to hold an urgent meeting after Shimon Riklin, an anchor on the pro-government Channel 14 news outlet, discussed during a Monday broadcast aspects of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium that they said had not been approved by the military censor for publication.

MKs Ram Ben Barak and Elazar Stern of the opposition Yesh Atid party sent a letter on Monday to the chair of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Boaz Bismuth, asking for a meeting of the forum, or of its intelligence sub-committee.

They said that Riklin had published “apparently secret information” and claimed that the details seemed to have come from officials with knowledge of the matter.

They warned that the information could cause harm to Israel and the US, as well as the ties between the two countries.

Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot, a former IDF chief of staff, posted that Riklin’s remarks were “reckless trafficking in national security” and that the information “must have come from senior government [sources].”

“This is a report that must be fully investigated,” wrote Eisenkot on X of the broadcast. “Anyone who trades in this kind of information has given up responsibility and sound judgment and is unfit to lead.”

ריקלין אידיוט שימושי, זה ידוע. אבל נשאלת השאלה – מי הבוגד שהדליף לריקלין? ???? pic.twitter.com/V0xJtWV6Ta — David Ronen (@DavidRonen80) May 18, 2026

ריקלין אידיוט שימושי, זה ידוע. אבל נשאלת השאלה – מי הבוגד שהדליף לריקלין? ???? pic.twitter.com/V0xJtWV6Ta

— David Ronen (@DavidRonen80) May 18, 2026

Riklin responded to Eisenkot, calling his remarks “nonsense” and insisting “that nothing was revealed by the channel.”

In a post to his own feed, Riklin wrote, “I did not reveal this evening any secret details that are prohibited from publication,” adding that he had not said anything about Israel’s preparations for possible military operations against Iran.

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