Senior aides to Netanyahu request cancellation of their witness intimidation indictments

Lawyers for Jonatan Urich and Ofer Golan, both advisers to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, file a request to the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court for indictments against the two to be annulled due to what they allege are severe flaws in the investigative processes.

The two were indicted, together with a third Netanyahu aide Yisrael Einhorn, in February 2025 on charges of witness intimidation for having in 2019 sent a car with a megaphone to the home of Shlomo Filber, a key witness in Netanyahu’s corruption trial, in order to harass him as part of an apparent effort to get him to retract his testimony against the prime minister.

Urich and Golan’s lawyers, Amit Hadad and Noah Milstein, describe the incident as “trivial” and assert in their request that Filber was not at home at the time and never filed a police complaint over harassment or intimidation.

The lawyers allege that the police unlawfully broke into the telephones of several subjects of their investigation into the incident without court orders and, at times, “in contravention of the terms established in the orders that were issued.”

“The conduct of the criminal proceedings against the applicants is in fundamental contradiction to the principles of justice, equality and legal fairness, and raises a real concern that the proceedings are being conducted on the basis of the results of an investigation that was born in sin, while seriously violating fundamental rights,” the lawyers allege.

Urich and Einhorn are both also suspects in the Bild – leaked documents case and the Qatargate case, with Urich likely to be charged over his role in the Bild affair.