After a recording of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu discussing community growth in Judea and Samaria during his tenure was leaked, Likud whip Tzahi Hanegbi ordered mobile phones be confiscated at a faction meeting on Wednesday morning, Army Radio revealed.
Exposed by reporter Michael Shemesh on Thursday, the latest recording hears Netanyahu warning Likud members to stop recording meetings as it is the quickest way to end their political careers.
"There are one or two people who lost their worlds because of the tapes, but if it becomes clear someone is recording, he is finished," Netanyahu charged. "There is no faster way to be finished."
Hanegbi then asserts that "whoever records will be held captive by the same journalist [he gave the recording to] for the rest of his life."
"You cannot hide. You have given your entire life to the journalist. And this journalist - say he has a wife, he has children - in another five years he could tell someone."
Absorption Minister Ze'ev Elkin then requests the right to speak. "The person who does this hurts all of us, but most of all himself. Anyone who dares to bring a tape recorder or a phone to meeting and leaks it."
"If this were a press conference, then all of us would know it was a press conference, and it's a shame," Elkin continued. "I appeal to all members - I don't want to get into who did it, but do some soul-searching. [Whoever does it] hurts all of us...I implore you."
"If there is someone who knows who did it, I advise him to go quietly to the Prime Minister and apologize and promise not to repeat it."