Regional Development Deputy Minister Ayoob Kara of the Likud Party seems to be seeking the media's attention. There is no other way to explain the series of embarrassing actions he has recently committed. The current affair in which he is involved goes beyond simply raising eyebrows or new jokes on social networks about his “endeavors.” Rather, this time it concerns a security-related leak with potentially dire repercussions for Israel. On Nov. 14, Kara revealed details on Facebook of a security-related affair currently under a gag order. According to the Israeli Military Censor, the details may endanger lives.

Kara removed the Facebook post after the criticism leveled at him by Israeli security sources. The damage, however, had evidently been done. According to what is currently known, the deputy minister had acted as a mediator in the affair under gag order, but apparently couldn’t keep from boasting about his involvement in the case even though the operation remained ongoing.

No less embarrassing were Kara’s attempts to justify his actions. In an interview with Israeli Army Radio, Kara asserted that he is under fire because he is not Jewish — he is Druze — and claimed that the operation is of a civil, not security-related, nature. Kara’s spokesperson, Yaron Olami, even went so far as to claim that sources involved in the affair had actually begged the deputy minister to reveal the details.

Security agents who had been involved in operations to bring Jews from Islamic countries to Israel unleashed scathing criticism of Kara. “Every time the deputy minister from the Likud gets involved in an operation like this, we all want to tear our hair out because he burns our bridges and ‘contaminates’ our sources,” one of the security agents told Eran Singer, a correspondent for Israeli public radio, Kol Israel.