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File: Ofer Golan, Likud campaign manager and Netanyahu family spokesman, arrives at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 7, 2019, 3:30 pm
Netanyahu confidants appeal against police searches of their phones
Ofer Golan and Jonatan Urich accuse investigators of using harassment allegations against them as pretext to get dirt on the prime minister
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Christian Media Summit in Jerusalem on November 3, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
November 3, 2019, 10:34 pm
Netanyahu backs aides in harassment probe, says police conduct ‘not okay’
PM also defends his justice minister’s attack on state prosecutors and judiciary, says no institution above reproach
By TOI staff
(R-L) Ofer Golan, Likud campaign manager, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, digital adviser Topaz Luk and Likud spokesman Jonatan Urich at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 3, 2019, 4:57 pm
PM aides accused of witness tampering may face upgraded charges
Ofer Golan and Jonatan Urich now suspected of witness intimidation, which carries a heavier maximum punishment; pair claims case should have been closed
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, left, and Avichai Mandelblit at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 1, 2019, 2:08 pm
Netanyahu aides ask AG to drop investigation over ‘illegal’ phone search
Ofer Golan and Jonatan Urich claim seizure and perusal of their devices is the latest in a ‘string of illegal failures’ by police, state prosecutors
By TOI staff
(R-L) Ofer Golan, Likud campaign manager, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, digital adviser Topaz Luk and Likud spokesman Jonatan Urich at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 31, 2019, 9:18 pm
Police search of Netanyahu aides’ cellphones delayed
AG said to take severe view of alleged harassment by Likud officials of witness in graft case implicating PM: ‘This is not trolling’
By TOI staff
File: Ofer Golan, Likud campaign manager and Netanyahu family spokesman, arrives at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 31, 2019, 4:04 pm
Likud campaign manager files police complaint over phone search
Ofer Golan claims seizure and perusal of his and another senior party official’s devices is a political move intended to isolate PM from his aides during coalition talks
By TOI staff
Justice Minister Amir Ohana delivers a statement to the press, at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, on October 29, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 31, 2019, 9:26 am
Justice minister mulling investigative panel into conduct of state prosecutors
Amir Ohana doubles down after Tuesday press conference, saying he wants to ‘cleanse’ the system which he says determines politics through the interrogation schedule
By TOI staff
File: Ofer Golan, Likud campaign manager and Netanyahu family spokesman, arrives at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 29, 2019, 10:53 pm
Second top Netanyahu aide says police illegally searched his phone
Likud campaign manager Ofer Golan joins party spokesman Jonatan Urich in asserting investigators searched his phone without notifying him of his rights or produce a warrant
By TOI staff
Justice Minister Amir Ohana holds a press conference in Jerusalem, October 29, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 29, 2019, 8:50 pm
Justice minister rails against prosecution as biased, enabled by media ‘cult’
In scathing attack, Amir Ohana claims body under his purview engages in blind persecution of public officials; top justice officials decry comments, say they won’t be intimidated
By TOI staff
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, August 29, 2019. (Flash90)
October 29, 2019, 8:06 am
PM aide claims police illegally searched his phone in witness harassment case
Attorney general requests response from investigators as Netanyahu spokesperson says they looked at messages on his device unrelated to case, forwarded them to other officials
By TOI staff
Likud spokesman Jonathan Urich speaks at a Central Elections Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, April 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 28, 2019, 12:06 pm
Right-wing leaders decry police confiscation of PM aides’ phones under probe
Premier’s son complains of ‘dictatorship,’ Smotrich warns of ‘deep state’ action; police say devices will be searched for relevant info only, preferably by judge, with court order
By TOI staff
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on October 27, 2019. (GALI TIBBON / AFP)
October 27, 2019, 8:10 pm
Netanyahu associates probed over suspected harassment of state witness
Likud spokesman, campaign manager reportedly questioned about video alleging Shlomo Filber falsely incriminated PM in corruption probes
By Michael Bachner and TOI staff
Arab Israelis at a polling station in Kafr Manda near Haifa on election day, September 17, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
September 19, 2019, 4:48 pm
A surprised right discovers the rising cost of making Arabs their punching bag
Likud may long rue the day it turned on the Arab electorate, just as the left still laments its mistreatment of Mizrahim; plus, the limits of annexation and of the campaign chiefs
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Blue and White head Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right. (Noam Revkin Fenton, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 17, 2019, 10:22 am
Which scheming party, duping you with cutting-edge tech, are you voting for?
Desperate for victory, our politicians posture, dissemble and adopt cutthroat new techniques to win our support. Damage control, as Likud’s campaign chief has noted, can come later
By Haviv Rettig Gur
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