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Eli Feldstein in court in July. Credit: Moti Milrod
Eli Feldstein in court in July. Credit: Moti Milrod
Eli Feldstein, the former spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed Tuesday that Netanyahu was aware of the leak of a classified document to German newspaper Bild.
“He is the one who ultimately stood behind the leak to the newspaper,” Feldstein said the second part of a three-part interview being broadcast on Kan 11. “To put out such a document, the prime minister needs to be in the picture – from beginning to end.”
According to Feldstein, after the publication he had a conversation about it with Netanyahu, who expressed his satisfaction. “[In the conversation,] the prime minister thanked me for the publication and said it was very important,” he said.
Asked how much Netanyahu knew about the leak, Feldstein replied that “he knew everything.”
He also revealed the involvement of another Netanyahu advisor, Yonatan Urich, in the affair. “Urich knows everything I knew: where the document came from, what its source was, why it wasn’t working out. He knows everything.”
Feldstein admitted that leak was make to a German newspaper in order to bypass Israeli military censorship, adding that this is “a well-known practice.”