After over a month, judge orders house arrest for Netanyahu aide, IDF reservist in leaks case

3 December 2024, 6:13 pm

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Eli Feldstein (left), a former spokesman in the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the main suspect in an investigation, launched in late October 2024, of alleged illegal access and leaking of classified intelligence material. (Kan screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) at a plenum session at the Knesset, Jerusalem, November 12, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

After more than a month in custody, the Tel Aviv District Court orders the release to house arrest of Eli Feldstein, a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with an unnamed IDF reservist, who have been held on suspicion of leaking stolen classified intelligence information to the foreign press.

Prosecutors file a request to delay the implementation of Judge Alaa Masarwa’s decision by 48 hours, and the latter accepts it, according to Hebrew media.

However, he orders prosecutors to say by 1 p.m. tomorrow whether they will appeal the decision. If not, they will be released, he says.