The expert called the rumors about Netanyahu's death an attempt to destabilize the situation in Israel.

The spread of rumors about the death of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is aimed at destabilizing the situation in Israel. Dmitry Yezhov, a political scientist and associate professor at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, told Izvestia about this on March 15.

"In Israel, the dissemination of this kind of information is certainly aimed at destabilizing the situation, destabilizing the mood in Israeli society," he said.

The expert noted that Israel's information policy is quite closed, which causes a lack of information. This, according to Yezhov, leads to the spread of fakes. He added that in conditions of information starvation, news will appear from completely different sources.

"Technology is so advanced that it is quite difficult to determine which is true and which is false. At the same time, let's not forget that we still live in an era of fairly active development of artificial intelligence technologies. And they are also evolving," Yezhov concluded.

Natalia Abramov, an independent expert on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, commenting on a video distributed on the Internet in which Netanyahu has six fingers, added that now a deepfake can be made at home.

According to her, neural networks have now reached such a level that it is possible to "transform into any character" in real time during a video conference.

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On March 15, Netanyahu posted a video on his page on the social network X (formerly Twitter), in which he proves for a minute that he is alive. In the video, he ironically answers a question about the rumors, and also shows his palm, proving that he does not have six fingers.

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