After months of political wrangling, mutual accusations, and pressure that reached the heart of the White House, US President Donald Trump finally detonated the anticipated political bomb on the evening of 19 November 2025. He announced that he had signed the bill compelling his administration to release the Jeffrey Epstein documents, a name tied to one of the most notorious sexual exploitation scandals in US history.
In his usual confrontational style, Trump declared on Truth Social: “Just signed the Epstein files release bill!” He went further, accusing his Democratic opponents of “hiding the truth” and obstructing what he called “the most dangerous file in Washington”. This came after intense pressure from inside his own Republican Party, where close allies began to turn against him publicly, including the defiant Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. It coincided with a rising media storm and public pressure demanding the unmasking of the documents.
The law passed by Congress on 19 November obligates the Department of Justice to release all non-classified documents within thirty days. These include files related to Epstein, who was found hanged in his cell in 2019, and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a 20 year sentence, along with the names of all individuals involved in the legal proceedings of the case.
Strikingly, the US House of Representatives passed the legislation unanimously, an unusual scene amid the current climate of political polarisation. Attempts by Trump and his Republican allies to halt or delay the vote collapsed in the face of a unified congressional determination to push the measure forward.
The significance of these documents goes beyond Epstein’s sexual crimes. They expose a sensitive web of relationships he maintained with high level political, economic, and cultural figures. This fuelled suspicions that his death may have been an assassination designed to prevent him from revealing embarrassing files that could topple powerful figures.
One of the most sensitive angles emerging from the Epstein files concerns his Israeli ties. Over recent years, revelations surfaced linking him to influential Israeli figures and institutions connected to Israeli intelligence. This opens the door to a lingering question in both Washington and Tel Aviv: What was the true nature of Epstein’s relationship with Israeli security circles?
Epstein and Ehud Barak: A Complex Network of Interests
The leaked Epstein documents have reignited political storms on both sides of the Atlantic. They shed new light on one of the most controversial relationships in US and Israeli public life: the connection between the mysterious financier and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
What was once whispered in political backrooms is now described openly as a complex network of interests. Epstein reportedly acted as a broker of influence, perhaps even an unofficial adviser. Some leaks show that he maintained contact with Barak even after his 2008 conviction.
The documents reveal that Epstein met Barak around 30 times between 2013 and 2017. These meetings included visits to Epstein’s homes in Florida and New York, and a private jet trip in 2014. Epstein also invested one million dollars in Carbyne, a security technology firm co founded by Barak.
Although Barak first met Epstein in 2002 through the late Israeli President Shimon Peres, he has consistently denied any involvement in Epstein’s illegal activities. However, the ties became a political liability in the 2019 Israeli elections. Benjamin Netanyahu demanded an investigation into 2.3 million dollars Barak received from the Wexner Foundation, an organisation linked to Epstein.
In July 2019, the New York Times confirmed that Barak received the payment between 2004 and 2006. Epstein later invested an additional one million dollars in a business partnership Barak established in 2015. These interconnected financial and political ties intensified public suspicion.
With each newly released document, the central question grows louder: Was the Epstein Barak relationship simply personal and financial, or did it extend into advancing broader agendas tied to Israel and its influence networks within the United States?
Epstein’s Israeli connections were not limited to Barak. Leaked emails filed in a lawsuit in the US Virgin Islands against JPMorgan Chase show Epstein arranging a 2011 meeting between Netanyahu and the bank’s executives to discuss support for his political activity. This underscores Epstein’s role as a broker with access to the highest political levels.
Deepening Israeli Influence in Africa
Electronic documents published by the investigative platform Drop Site reveal threads of a sprawling network stretching from New York to Abidjan. Epstein’s role extended beyond that of a shadowy businessman. He acted as a behind the scenes intermediary facilitating the expansion of Israeli influence across Africa.
According to the leaks, Epstein quietly helped arrange sensitive security negotiations between Israel and Ivory Coast, with direct support from Ehud Barak. These talks paved the way for a comprehensive surveillance system, giving Israel an advanced intelligence foothold in one of West Africa’s most strategic states.
The leaked messages show Epstein and Barak serving since 2012 as backchannel conduits between officials in President Alassane Ouattara’s government and Israeli representatives. Their goal was to promote Israeli communications surveillance technology and expand Israeli intelligence presence in the region.
While Barak used his official role as Defence Minister to promote security contracts in unstable states, Epstein provided political and financial cover. He linked influential African officials with specialised Israeli security firms in moves kept far from public scrutiny.
These activities evolved into a formal security agreement signed in 2014 after the UN partially lifted its arms embargo on Ivory Coast. Investigations show that Avigdor Lieberman’s signing of the agreement in Abidjan in front of more than fifty Israeli businessmen marked the shift from covert contacts to overt Israeli security expansion in Africa.
The documents also indicate that Epstein regularly communicated with figures close to President Ouattara. He coordinated secret meetings between Barak and Ivorian officials in New York and Abidjan. Additional files show Barak continued operating behind the scenes even after leaving office, using security companies as negotiating fronts and relying on coded communications.
Evidence suggests he personally oversaw arrangements for high level visits, including a 2013 trip to Abidjan where he discussed restructuring Ivory Coast’s intelligence apparatus. The documents reveal a complex network blending money, politics, and intelligence, operating beyond the boundaries of formal diplomacy.
Financing the Israeli Offensive Computing Network
New documents released by the US Congress Oversight Board, along with leaked emails from Ehud Barak’s inbox, expose a hidden dimension of Epstein’s activities. He was not merely an influence broker but a strategic architect of a global financial network that helped fund Israel’s offensive cyber computing industry.
The documents show how Epstein used his close friendship with Ariane de Rothschild, chairwoman of Edmond de Rothschild Group, to facilitate financial support for sensitive cyber projects tied to Israeli intelligence, complementing Barak’s previous work in the elite Unit 81.
The emails reveal a deeper relationship between Epstein and de Rothschild than the bank publicly admitted. Epstein organised private meetings, joint travel, and conveyed direct messages from her to Barak. One message included an explicit offer: “A close relationship with me will open the doors to the big money.”
In return, Barak relied on Epstein’s personal advice on how to cultivate and politically leverage that relationship. Epstein positioned himself as a liaison between political elites and global financial circles.
The leaks also show Epstein pushing de Rothschild to invest in offensive cyber firms through a joint investment fund. At the same time, Barak coordinated with Israeli intelligence experts to convert secret military grade cyber tools into commercial ventures aimed at global markets. Both men maintained communication with leaders of major Swiss banks like Julius Baer, some of which were already facing money laundering probes.
In the final years before Epstein’s 2019 death, his interactions with de Rothschild intensified. They included multimillion dollar consulting deals for his company Southern Trust. The triangular relationship between Epstein, Barak, and de Rothschild continued until at least 2017. It focused on building a transcontinental financing network to support Israeli cyber projects. These details, revealed for the first time in this depth, raise serious questions about the extent of political and financial elite involvement in such sensitive ventures.
An Agent for Israeli Intelligence
During the Turning Point USA summit held in Tampa, Florida, on 11 July 2025, American conservative commentator Tucker Carlson dropped a major revelation when he implied that Epstein ran a blackmail network on behalf of Israel.
Carlson questioned the nature of Epstein’s relationship with the Mossad, citing longstanding allegations that he cooperated with Israeli intelligence in blackmail operations targeting high profile individuals. He added: “Everyone in Washington believes this.” He then asked: “How did a man who was a math teacher at Dalton School in the late 1970s, with no university degree, end up owning multiple planes, a private island, and the largest private residence in Manhattan? Where did all that money come from?”
Speculation about Epstein’s links to the Mossad did not begin with Carlson. Former Mossad officer Ari Ben Menashe wrote in his 2020 book Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell operated a blackmail network for the Mossad using underage girls to target influential figures.
Former NSA counterintelligence officer John Schindler wrote on his blog Top Secret Umbra in January 2024 that Epstein appeared to be part of a shadowy Israeli influence operation known as MEGA. Schindler argued that the scale of Epstein’s crimes over decades required massive institutional support, possibly “a small army”.
Eric Weinstein, mathematician and former executive at Thiel Capital, said on the Diary of a CEO podcast that Epstein was not a conventional financier, describing him as “a strange individual” who seemed to be the product of intelligence services. He added that Epstein lacked depth in currency trading despite his immense wealth, highlighting his mysterious role in global influence circles.
On X, journalist Glenn Greenwald highlighted Epstein’s web of ties, noting several indicators. These included Epstein’s close friendship with Ehud Barak and the fact that one of his main wealth sources was Les Wexner, a man with deep ties to Israel. Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, the billionaire Robert Maxwell, was also a Mossad agent who died under mysterious circumstances.
Greenwald added that Epstein received privileged treatment in Israel and invested heavily in Israeli technology. He questioned why US intelligence agencies had never issued a formal denial regarding these connections.
The Document Release: Does Israel Have a Role?
Although many observers view the revival of the Epstein case as surpassing the usual Democratic Republican rivalry, linking it instead to deeper power struggles between US security and intelligence institutions, some voices speculate that external actors may influence the publication or suppression of the documents.
There is growing talk that elements within the so called deep state are trying to reset the political scene and prevent any deviation from established power structures. This gives the issue dimensions that go beyond pure domestic politics.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene stirred controversy in an interview with CNN when she hinted at the possibility of Israeli involvement in influencing the release of the documents. Asked directly: “Are you saying Israel is pressuring President Trump to hide the Epstein files?” she replied cautiously: “I am not accusing Israel specifically. I am just asking a question. It could be any foreign government.”
Greene’s implications align with circulating theories in political and media circles. These theories argue that intelligence agencies, possibly Israeli or from other states, may have indirect interests in managing or leaking specific parts of the documents given Epstein’s longstanding ties with influential Israeli figures and institutions.
Ultimately, these questions remain open. Epstein built a secret network of relationships with global political and security elites. Every interpretation or assumption is subject to change as new information or leaks emerge. This gives the case international and security dimensions equal in weight to its political importance.
In Light of the Above
It becomes clear that Israel was deeply embedded in the influence network Jeffrey Epstein assembled over decades. By leveraging foreign figures and complex financial and political ties, Israel expanded its reach internally and externally. Using a businessman with a notorious sexual scandal as a conduit for coordination between top Israeli officials and Western and African elites raises serious questions about the extent of Israeli intelligence penetration into foreign decision making circles.
The release of these documents increasingly exposes the darker face of cross border influence networks that exploited human and political vulnerabilities to achieve intelligence and commercial objectives. The polished image Israel has projected as a state of principles and civilisation stands in stark contrast to the reality reflected in these files.
The case remains open to further investigations and leaks. It carries the potential to reshape international relations and the Israeli American partnership. It also exposes how clandestine networks can operate as tools of pressure and control at the highest levels, far from public scrutiny and legal oversight.
