Report: Feldstein tells cops PM’s office gathers info on foes ‘just like they did to Gallant’

Eli Feldstein, the former spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s Office who is a key figure in the Qatargate scandal, reportedly described in testimony to police a secret late-night meeting with a senior official “apparently from the Prime Minister’s Office,” just days before his arrest.

Feldstein was arrested in late 2024, on suspicion of leaking stolen classified intelligence information to the foreign press.

According to the Channel 12 news report, Feldstein told investigators that, during the meeting, the official hinted he could “suppress the whole matter” — referring to a covert IDF investigation into a leaked Hamas document. Feldstein said the official showed him “a list of names” of suspected leakers and that he later realized it included senior figures in the Prime Minister’s Office.

In his testimony, Feldstein allegedly refused to name names, warning investigators, “You know what it means when they talk about the poison machine working at those levels up there. They’ll understand that I’ve spoken in the investigation, and that’s a burden I won’t be able to bear.”

Feldstein also reportedly claimed that the prime minister’s circle knows what it is doing, and that “they gather information in the office about people, just as they gathered it on Defense Minister Gallant.”

Netanyahu fired Gallant as defense minister first in March 2023, before rescinding the move after mass protests, and then again in November 2024.

Channel 12 reports that Feldstein gave this testimony while being held in solitary confinement for 10 days.