Israel's defence minister 'confirms' Trump leaked intel to Russia

Israel's hard-line defence minister Avigdor Lieberman on Wednesday appeared to confirm that the US had leaked Israeli intelligence to Russian officials during a meeting earlier this month.

Speaking to Israel's Army Radio, Lieberman said Israel had made a "specific correction" in its dealings with the US, without providing further details.

"Everything we needed to clarify with our friends in the United States was done," Lieberman said. "We made clarifications."

The Israeli foreign minister said there remains "unprecedented" intelligence cooperation with the United States.

His comments are the first by a senior Israeli official on the matter of President Donald Trump's alleged disclosure of highly classified information to Russian officials, which may have endangered the life of a purported Israeli spy embedded with the Islamic State.

A scandal broke over the alleged disclosure after it was reported that Trump went "off script" during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Moscow's envoy to the US.

He reportedly "began describing details about an Islamic State terrorist threat related to the use of laptop computers on aircraft," The Washington Post said.

The source of the intelligence was reportedly an Israeli spy embedded with IS.

During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem this week, Trump appeared to inadvertently confirm he shared classified information.

"I never mentioned the word or the name Israel," Trump told reporters in Jerusalem.

Israeli intelligence officials were reportedly furious over the incident, leading to a tense exchange of shouting during a meeting with their US counterparts, Foreign Policy reported.

"To them, it’s horrifying," a US defence official who was at the meeting said.

"Their first question was: 'What is going on? What is this?'"