However, for some, including the country’s far-right finance minister, the outrage has centred on the ‘crime’ of recording the video, rather than the alleged rape itself. Bezalel Smotrich demanded ‘an immediate criminal investigation to locate the leakers of the trending video that was intended to harm the reservists and that caused tremendous damage to Israel in the world and to exhaust the full severity of the law against them’. Others, including hard right and ultranationalist politicians such as National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have argued that any action – even gang rape – is ‘permissible’ if it ‘benefits the security of the state’.