Police filed a formal notice of intent to indict Gur Levi, 25, from Tel Aviv, and the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court extended his detention until June 24. At the same time, Walla published exclusive footage from a Bershka store in TLV Mall that appears to show Levi in the fitting-room area holding up a hand with what looks like a mobile phone. The footage was collected during the investigation and sent to the State Attorney’s Office as evidence.
The rape case investigated alongside the other allegations was not included in the notice submitted to court. According to sources familiar with the probe, no indictment is expected on that suspicion at this stage because of weak evidence, although the case has not been closed and investigators and prosecutors are still reviewing it before a final decision.
Levi was arrested on June 11 after a complaint by Shir Weiss, who said she was filmed in a fitting room at the Bershka branch in TLV Mall, as Walla first reported. More complainants later came forward, and police attributed to him suspicions of privacy invasion, publishing an humiliating or degrading image, and sexual harassment.
During the investigation, police examined four separate cases. Two involved suspected filming of women in fitting rooms at TLV Mall, one involved alleged rape, and a fourth came from a young woman who said she was recorded without her knowledge during a sexual encounter with Levi in a club bathroom in Tel Aviv. She said the encounter was consensual but that she did not know she had been filmed, and that Levi contacted her more than a year later and sent her the recording. Levi’s lawyer, Shira Aronson, said he turned himself in after seeing his photo in the media, cooperated with investigators, and gave his version of events. Judge Ravit Pleg Bardayan said the required procedures must be completed and ordered his detention extended until June 24. Prosecutors are expected to file an indictment in the coming days on some of the suspicions, excluding the rape case for now.
