The Rishon Letzion Magistrates Court extends the remand of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides Joantan Urich and Elie Feldstein until Thursday.
Police had asked the court to keep them in custody for nine more days.
Police grilled Urich and Feldstein as suspects in the Qatargate case yesterday morning and later took them into custody.
The joint police and Shin Bet probe was launched following revelations that Netanyahu’s former spokesman, Feldstein — who has been charged with harming national security in a separate case involving the theft and leaking of classified IDF documents — worked for an international firm contracted by Qatar to feed Israeli journalists pro-Qatar stories all while employed in the Prime Minister’s Office.
For his part, Urich is suspected of having a role in a convoluted chain of business figures and other officials involved in transferring payments from Doha to cover up their origin.
Netanyahu was also asked to give testimony yesterday, though he is not a suspect in the case at this time.
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