AG set to indict PM’s ex-chief of staff for obstruction of justice, and fraud and breach of trust, pending hearing

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is set to indict Tzachi Braverman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former chief of staff, on charges of obstruction of justice, and fraud and breach of trust, pending a hearing, the State Attorney’s Office announces.

The charges relate to a meeting Braverman held with Eli Feldstein, a media adviser to Netanyahu, in October 2024, in which the prime minister’s chief of staff told Feldstein that there was an investigation being conducted into the leak of classified documents to the German Bild newspaper.

Feldstein is accused of leaking the document in order to buttress Netanyahu’s claims that it was Hamas, not the prime minister who was holding up a deal to release the hostages held by the terror group in Gaza.

Braverman asked Feldstein if the investigation might be targeting the media adviser, and said that if so, he could quash it.

Feldstein and another key suspect were arrested shortly after the meeting, and subsequently indicted on charges of transferring classified documentation.

Braverman has been designated as Israel’s next ambassador to the UK, but the ongoing investigation into the affair has prevented him from taking up the appointment.