AG to suspend witness intimidation case against PM’s aides, until Einhorn extradited

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara notifies court authorities that the state has decided to suspend the witness intimidation case against three of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides, amid a failure to extradite one of the suspects, Yisrael Einhorn.

“The state informed the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court that due to the non-arrival to Israel of Yisrael Einhorn for trial, it was decided to delay the legal proceedings,” her office said in a statement.

“The proceedings will be renewed with his coming,” it said.

Einhorn, Jonatan Urich, and Ofer Golan were indicted in February 2025 on charges of witness intimidation for having sent a car with a megaphone in 2019 to the home of Shlomo Filber, a key witness in Netanyahu’s corruption trial, in order to harass him, as part of an apparent effort to get him to retract his testimony against the premier.

Einhorn, however, lives in Serbia, and has refused to return to Israel for the purposes of the legal proceedings. He is also a suspect in the both the Bild leaked documents affair and the so-called “Qatargate” affair, as is Urich.

In light of the prosecution’s inability to have Einhorn extradited, Judge Dror Kleitman asked the state attorney’s representatives last month to inform the court if it wished to proceed with the trial against Golan and Urich or if it will instead withdraw the indictment.