Report: Top Netanyahu adviser Jonathan Urich questioned under caution for second time

20 November 2024, 4:03 pm

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Likud spokesman Jonatan Urich at a joint press conference by Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu and Zehut party chairman Moshe Feiglin at Kfar Hamacabiah in Ramat Gan, on August 29, 2019. (Flash90)

Hebrew media reports that Jonathan Urich, a spokesman in the Prime Minister’s Office, is being questioned by the Israel Police’s Lahav 433 major crimes unit for the second time as part of a probe into the alleged leaking of stolen classified documents to the German Bild daily earlier this year.

Urich was first questioned under caution late last week but is reportedly being questioned again before indictments are issued against the main suspects in the case.

Urich is suspected of having instructed former Netanyahu aide and spokesman Eli Feldstein, the main suspect in the case, to send the stolen documents to Srulik Einhorn — a former senior campaign adviser to Netanyahu’s Likud party — who in turn passed it on to Bild.

According to Channel 12, Urich’s demand came after a Channel 12 reporter whom Feldstein initially leaked the document to was barred from reporting on it by the IDF censor.