Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter adds his voice to those of fellow coalition lawmakers denouncing the alleged actions of suspects in the Qatargate probe.
The suspects in the probe — Jonathan Urich, a close aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Eli Feldstein, the premier’s former spokesperson — are accused of working to promote Qatar’s image while employed by the Prime Minister’s Office.
“Whoever works for the State of Israel from inside the Prime Minister’s Office, and in parallel works for the state of Qatar and does public relations for it is an outlaw,” he says in a recording he posts on the social network X. “I don’t know if he’s a criminal outlaw, but he’s certainly a national outlaw.”
Dichter, a former chief of the Shin Bet intelligence agency, is the latest in a series of lawmakers from Netanyahu’s coalition to speak out about the allegations after news networks reported a series of explosive details about them.
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