District Court Rejects Prosecutors’ Request, Won’t Bar Orich From PM’s Office

In a video: Hearing on the police request to bar Jonathan Urich from the Prime Minister’s Office, Central District Court, January 6, 2026 / Walla News.

This morning (Thursday), the Central District Prosecutor’s Office filed an amended indictment with the Tel Aviv District Court in the classified documents leak case to Bild, centered on the addition of Jonathan Urich, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s communications adviser, as the third principal defendant in the case. Urich is charged with a series of serious security offenses, including delivering secret information with intent to harm state security, two counts, delivering secret information, possessing secret information, and destroying evidence.

Alongside the filing of the indictment, which was approved by the Attorney General and the State Prosecutor, the prosecution asked to impose restrictive conditions on Urich, including a renewed full ban from the Prime Minister’s Office and from any security facility. Judge Ala’a Masarwa of the Tel Aviv District Court rejected the prosecution’s request and ruled that Urich may remain in contact with Netanyahu.

Attorney Amit Hadad, Urich’s and Netanyahu’s defense lawyer, said at the start of the hearing: “For three and a half months there have been no restrictions on Urich, he talks with the prime minister, runs the Likud campaign, and now they are asking to remove him again. What changed tonight? Let them say they are completely political, take off the masks.”