Jeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) shakes hands with Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman, his military secretary, whom he nominated on December 4, 2025, to be the next director of the Mossad. (Prime Minister's Office Spokesperson)
Ronen Gofman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s military secretary, gives open testimony to the police regarding allegations that Netanyahu’s chief of staff Tzachi Braverman said he could quash a military investigation into the leak of a classified document to the German Bild newspaper.
Hebrew media reports that Gofman gave testimony to the police’s Lahav 433 national crimes unit this morning. Gofman, who has been nominated by Netanyahu to be the next head of the Mossad, is not a suspect in the case.
The police reportedly believe that Braverman received the information about the military investigation during the course of his work as Netanyahu’s chief of staff, but unlawfully informed one of the subjects of investigation, Netanyahu’s media advisor Eli Feldstein, that he was being investigated.
In an interview with the Kan public broadcaster in December, Feldstein said that Braverman had called him to meet in an underground parking lot in the IDF’s headquarters in Tel Aviv in September 2024, and said during that conversation that he could get the investigation “shut down.”
Prime Minister’s Office’s chief of staff Tzachi Braverman, in the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 11, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
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