Police declare Netanyahu’s ex-campaign adviser Einhorn a ‘fugitive’ with arrest warrant against him

Police declare Yisrael Einhorn to be a “fugitive criminal,” making the declaration about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ex-campaign adviser for the first time.

“Einhorn is a suspect in this affair and is being investigated for offenses of passing on confidential information, and an arrest warrant was issued against him,” police tell the Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court, according to Hebrew media reports. “Despite this, the above-mentioned person has avoided arriving in Israel and is a fugitive criminal.”

Einhorn lives in Serbia.

The comment came during the hearing over the alleged leak of classified documents, police also ask for a two-month extension on the release conditions placed on Jonatan Urich, prohibiting him from speaking to anyone connected to the scandal, including Netanyahu — who is not a suspect — and from working in the Prime Minister’s Office.

The Bild affair was triggered by the execution of six Israeli hostages at the hands of their Hamas captors, when Israeli troops approached the tunnel where they were located in the southern Gaza city of Rafah at the end of August 2024.

The execution sparked massive public uproar against the government, which critics saw as the obstacle in ceasefire negotiations due to Netanyahu’s perceived prioritization of an amorphous “total victory” over Hamas at the expense of hostages’ lives.

Einhorn, Urich and Netanyahu’s former spokesman Eli Feldstein are also accused of taking money to spearhead a public relations campaign to cast Qatar in a positive light for over a year after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, despite the Gulf state’s strong ties to the terror group, and doing so while working in the Prime Minister’s Office.