Illustrative: A woman works out at a gym in Jerusalem (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)
Video clips from a gym in Yavne, apparently gleaned from hacked security cameras at the premises and then shared online, have rocked the central Israel city, as footage reportedly showed female clients, including some who are married, having sex with a trainer.
The Israel Police said Tuesday that it had opened a probe into the hack and that two complaints were filed, one of them by the owner of the gym and the other by a woman who was at the gym.
Local residents in the city of just under 60,000 residents told media that the acts revealed in the footage have destroyed some families and left some husbands with nagging suspicions about their wives.
“How can I describe the shame I felt when I saw the clip?” a woman who spotted her aunt in a video asked the Walla news site. “Our family is ruined. People don’t understand the damage caused. It is not just clips. It destroyed entire families.”
Walla cited one resident of the city as saying: “The facts are that there were married women who cheated, some of them endangered the health of their husbands since they had unprotected sex with the trainer,” who also had intercourse with multiple other women.
A person who was not named in the report told Walla they knew the trainer and he has since disappeared.
“He disconnected his phone, shut down his Facebook and Instagram accounts, and simply disappeared.”
The faces of the women were reportedly clearly visible in the videos.
“It is simply crazy, the videos spread like wildfire and the whole city already knows,” a Yavne resident told the Ynet news site.
“Whoever distributed these video clips caused irreversible damage and destruction to many families,” a trainer from the gym identified only by the Hebrew initial “Nun” told Channel 12 news. “Whoever continues to distribute [them] makes the situation worse and should stop.”
“This is a relatively small city and everyone knows everyone else. Everyone suspects his wife and it’s just chaos,” she said. “I identified one of my friends and the damage was already done.”
Nun said that many trainers at the gym were “in shock” over what had happened.
Police said in a statement that an investigation was opened after “sensitive material that was recorded on the security cameras of a gym was obtained and distributed in groups, in violation of the law.”
“Police intend to determine the circumstances of the beach and access to the cameras alongside investigative actions to reveal the identities” of those who distributed the material, the force said.
Police stressed that “distributing videos and pictures of a sexual nature is prohibited, is a violation of the law, and carries with it a prison sentence.”
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