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Court records reveal further document leaked from IDF to ex-Netanyahu aide Feldstein
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter
A second document that IDF non-commissioned officer Ari Rosenfeld leaked to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aide Eli Feldstein detailed Hamas’s psychological warfare plans against Israel, court records reveal.
The information comes from transcripts of court hearings released for publication by the Tel Aviv District Court in which the nature of the second intelligence document leaked by Rosenfeld to Feldstein was disclosed.
The indictments against Rosenfeld allege that he transferred three classified documents to Feldstein in total.
Rosenfeld gave Feldstein the second document when the two met at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on September 9, 2024, when the NCO gave Netanyahu’s aide a hardcopy of the first intelligence document he had passed to Feldstein, who subsequently leaked it to the Bild tabloid newspaper.
According to the new court records, first published by Ynet, the Hamas document leaked by Feldstein to Bild was authored by members of Hamas’s political wing.
Rosenfeld has been charged with unlawfully transferring classified information, while Feldstein is charged with the same crime but “with intent to harm state security,” a charge his lawyer has vigorously rejected.
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