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Urich questioned under caution again over ‘nighttime parking lot meeting’ between Braverman, Feldstein
Jeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter
Jonatan Urich, a senior aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is summoned for questioning under caution by the police over an investigation related to the Bild leaked documents scandal in which he is a key suspect, Channel 13 reports.
Urich is being questioned about the so-called “nighttime parking lot meeting” in which Eli Feldstein, another Netanyahu aide, met with the premier’s chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, at the IDF’s Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv in late September 2024.
Feldstein has said Braverman called him there to tell him he was aware of a military investigation into the leak of a document from IDF Military Intelligence to Feldstein, who subsequently leaked it to the German Bild newspaper as part of an effort to bolster Netanyahu’s claims that there was no hostage release deal to be done with Hamas.
Feldstein claims that Braverman asked him if was familiar with any figures on a list of six names, who appear to have been additional suspects in the military investigation, and allegedly told him he could “quash” the probe.
Braverman himself has been questioned on suspicion of obstruction of justice. His appeal against conditions barring him from returning to work in the Prime Minister’s Office is scheduled to be heard in the Lod-Central District Court later today.
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