Israeli media report that a newly disclosed arrest linked to Prime Minister Netanyahu's office involves Shin Bet testimony, destruction of evidence, and questions about what the PM's inner circle knew. The report is based on an investigative expose.
A new investigative report published Friday morning alleges a wider scandal involving Prime Minister Netanyahu's bureau than previously known, with former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar's testimony and alleged systematic destruction of evidence at its core, Israeli media reported. The report, published after The Zioneer's earlier coverage of the Feldstein-Urich affair, claims that the Shin Bet chief's testimony includes details about an arrest linked to the bureau and the erasure of evidence, raising questions about what the prime minister's inner circle knew. The timing of the new report relative to the earlier developments is unclear from the available material.
As The Zioneer reported on Wednesday June 24 at 20:23 Jerusalem, former Shin Bet director Ronen Bar updated Prime Minister Netanyahu on the arrest of his former spokesman Eli Feldstein immediately after it was carried out. That same report stated that aide Yonatan Urich erased his phone's contents within 24 hours of Feldstein's arrest. An earlier version of that thread, also filed at 20:23, had reported that the Prime Minister's Office was informed of the probe into Urich from its early stages, and that Urich allegedly destroyed his phone within a day of Feldstein's arrest — a claim that was then corroborated by multiple newsroom accounts in subsequent updates.
The Zioneer previously reported on Wednesday that the PMO was updated on the investigative stages despite a complete gag order being imposed at the time, as per Channel 12's Ofir Hadad. The Shin Bet's role in updating the prime minister in real time was a central finding in that thread.
The identity of the individual arrested in the bureau, the specific charges, and the full chain of events surrounding the alleged destruction of evidence remain unconfirmed by independent sources, as of this report.
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