Netanyahu aide to be charged with leaking secret information with intent to harm state security
Prosecutors say Jonatan Urich leaked a classified military document and destroyed evidence in a case tied to Netanyahu’s inner circle.
- Israel's Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara announced Thursday that Jonatan Urich, a close adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, faces criminal prosecution for leaking classified military intelligence to German newspaper Bild with intent to harm national security.
- According to investigators, the alleged leak aimed to "influence public opinion in Israel regarding the negotiations over the hostages," shifting blame to Hamas after Israeli military censors barred domestic publication.
- Prosecutors allege reserve noncommissioned officer Ari Rosenfeld sent a "Hamas document" to spokesman Eli Feldstein, who coordinated with Urich in a "conference call of about five minutes" to distribute the material.
- Urich's attorneys Amit Hadad and Noa Milstein rejected the indictment as "wrong and detached from the evidence," claiming Judge Menachem Mizrahi found "not a shred of evidence" of his involvement in the leak.
- The indictment places Netanyahu's inner circle at the center of a sensitive security case, fueling opposition claims of a "rotten" administration, while Netanyahu and allies have characterized the investigation as a political "witch hunt.
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Yonatan Urich, advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister, is re-charged for "transmitting classified information with intent to undermine state security"
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Netanyahu aide to be charged with leaking secret information with intent to harm state security
Israel’s attorney general says a close adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will face criminal prosecution for leaking secret information to a German newspaper with the intent of harming the country’s security.
A-G to indict Netanyahu adviser Yonatan Urich in classified-documents affair, evidence destruction
The indictment, which prosecutors will file shortly in the Tel Aviv District Court, charges Urich with delivering secret information with the intent to harm state security and destroying evidence.
PM aide charged with 'intent to harm state security' by sharing secret documents
BibiLeaks | Urich Is Accused of Working Along With ex-PM Spokesperson Eli Feldstein to Extract Classified Information From IDF Systems. According to Feldstein, Urich Ordered to Pass the Information to Foreign Media and to the German Daily 'Bild' to Shape Public Opinion in Israel
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