In a twist so audacious it reads like a procedural comedy, Israeli police allegedly used NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to hack the phones of citizens without authorisation — including, most deliciously, a witness in Benjamin Netanyahu's own corruption trial. The government launched a commission of inquiry after the newspaper Calcalist reported that targets included officials, journalists, protesters, and a son of the former prime minister himself. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called the reports 'very serious,' which in political parlance means 'we are hoping you forget this by next week.' Netanyahu, freshly ousted and freshly outraged, told parliament it was a 'dark day for Israeli democracy' — a sentiment that landed with some irony given his own pending bribery charges. An initial inquiry confirmed spyware had indeed been used. A Jerusalem court suspended a hearing in Netanyahu's corruption trial to allow prosecution lawyers time to determine whether illegally harvested surveillance had contaminated their own case. The investigators, it turns out, may have been investigating themselves the entire time.