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President Donald Trump walks back to the White House in Washington after escorting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to his vehicle following Erdogan's visit, Tuesday, May 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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From Israel, reportedly the source of the classified information that President Donald Trump passed to senior Russian officials last week, a reminder that actions have consequences:

Speaking to The Times of Israel, Shabtai Shavit, who ran Israel's Mossad spy agency in the 1990s, said that if he were in charge today, Trump's actions last week would make him disinclined to cooperate with America.

"If tomorrow I were asked to pass information to the CIA, I would do everything I could to not pass it to them. Or I would first protect myself and only then give it, and what I'd give would be totally neutered," Shavit told the newspaper.

He continued, "If some smart guy decides that he's allowed to leak information, then your partners in cooperation will be fewer or just won't be at all."

The Israeli spy boss described Trump as a "bull in a china shop," and even though he acknowledged that the U.S. President has the right to share information, "the rules of proper operation demand that even a president of the world's greatest power consult with the experts. That's why the government pays them."

Another former Mossad head, Danny Yatom, told the newspaper that Israel should penalize the United States for its actions.

"We need to punish the Americans, it's possible, so that we don't put Trump in a position where he is again tempted, we need to abstain from transferring information to him, or to only give him partial information so that he can't endanger any source," Yatom, who headed the spy agency from 1999 to 2001, told Israeli radio.

Like Shavit, Yatom acknowledged Trump's right to share the information. But, he said, Israel will "stop sharing in the future," if it continues.