Prosecution Seeks to Bar Urich From the Prime Minister’s Office
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The prosecution is seeking to bar Urich from the Prime Minister’s Office
Rebeka Shorq, 30 minutes ago
The amended indictment in the classified documents case includes the addition of Yonatan Urich as a defendant alongside Eli Feldstein and Arye Rosenfeld • The prosecution is seeking to prohibit him from contacting prosecution witnesses, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
The State Prosecution filed an amended indictment today, Thursday, in the classified documents case, adding the prime minister’s adviser, Yonatan Urich, as a defendant alongside Eli Feldstein and reservist Arye Rosenfeld.
Along with the indictment, the prosecution is asking to impose restrictive conditions on Urich until the end of the proceedings, including a ban on contacting people involved in the case, including prosecution witnesses. Among the prosecution witnesses on the list is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This means that if the court fully accepts the request, Urich will be prohibited from contacting Netanyahu while the proceedings are ongoing.
The amended indictment accuses Urich of transmitting a secret document with intent to harm state security, transmitting a secret document, possessing a secret document, and destroying evidence. According to the prosecution, Urich and Feldstein worked to publish classified information in the newspaper Bild, despite knowing that military censorship had prohibited its publication in Israel.
It is also alleged that Feldstein, in coordination with Urich, passed information he received from Rosenfeld to unauthorized parties. The prosecution says the actions led to the exposure of a secret intelligence means and its capabilities, in a way that could have caused damage to Israel’s security interests. In addition, it is alleged that the day after Feldstein and Rosenfeld were arrested, Urich replaced his mobile phone without transferring the messages from the previous device, in order to prevent them from being seized as evidence.
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