For more than a year, a claim has spread that Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its embassies released a message warning about a website called “lionnights,” which supposedly seeks to locate and harm Israelis and Jewish people overseas.
On Oct. 7, one social media user posted a version of the alleged message on X (archived), saying it came from Israel’s embassy in the Netherlands:
Please share this with your Jewish networks. The Israeli Embassy has asked us to share the following message with the community:
Dear friends,
Right now, a website is circulating that claims to help Jews living abroad:
https://lionnights
This website collects information about Jewish and Israeli families abroad and invites people to “host Jews and Israelis.”
There is a serious suspicion that this site is operated by hostile entities seeking to identify and harm Jewish and Israeli families.
Under no circumstances should you provide personal information on this website!
Stay away and spread this message: do not use this site and rely only on official channels of the Israeli government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and its embassies.
Snopes readers contacted us about the claim as the message also circulated on Facebook and Threads.
It is unclear, as of this writing, where the alleged warning about the “lionnights” website originated from. Such a website does not appear to be online at the time of publication, meaning Snopes could not independently verify claims it is attempting to collect location information from Israelis abroad.
Claims about the website date back to June 2025, meaning the warning could be outdated.
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In the meantime, due to a lack of evidence regarding who sent out the alleged warning, we leave this claim unrated. It is unclear whether the website in question targets Israelis overseas with the intention to cause them harm.
Searches on Google, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo returned no examples of reputable news media outlets reporting on the “lionnights” website (archived, archived, archived).
The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has one archived snapshot for lionnights.com in July 2025. That site contained no information. We also searched Wayback Machine for snapshots for lionnights.net, .il and .org but found no captures. Archive.today has several snapshots for lionnights.net but all lead to archived error pages.
Five examples of social media posts attribute the warning to the Israeli embassies in Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K., South Africa and the U.S. in June and July 2025 and October 2026 (archived, archived, archived, archived, archived).
However, it was not possible to locate the warning message on those embassies’ own social media pages or websites. It is unlikely embassies would have asked community groups to share a message the embassies did not share themselves.
Snopes attempted to reach out to the relevant embassies to ask if they shared the messages but we were not able to make contact.
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