Ex-aide to PM claims Netanyahu’s office has compromising video of former defense minister

In the latest segment of his interview with the Kan public broadcaster, Eli Feldstein, the indicted former spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says that the premier’s office possesses a video of former defense minister Yoav Gallant acting violently, which he suggests has prevented Gallant from divulging information.

Feldstein said, “Footage is held in the Prime Minister’s Office of the [former] defense minister [Yoav Gallant] acting violently toward security guards when he was refused entry to the Prime Minister’s Office at the beginning of the war.”

Feldstein did not say whether the prime minister himself knew that compromising material about Gallant was being collected, the network reports.

But he adds, “I estimate that Gallant knows they’re collecting material on him. He understands that there’s footage of the event in question and other events.”

Feldstein adds that because of that, Gallant “won’t open his mouth.”

Gallant, whom Netanyahu fired in November 2024, has publicly criticized the prime minister a number of times since then.

Feldstein is a suspect in two cases: One in which he is accused of leaking classified information to a German tabloid, and another, known as Qatargate, in which he and another suspect are accused of simultaneously working for Qatar and for the Prime Minister’s Office.

Feldstein has sat this week for a multi-part interview with the network, in which he has alleged that Netanyahu knew of and supported his efforts to make use of classified intelligence to sway public opinion against a hostage deal.