{"id":597722,"date":"2026-08-27T15:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/597722\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:58:25","slug":"mossad-chief-gofman-will-not-handle-qatargate-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/597722\/","title":{"rendered":"Mossad chief Gofman will not handle Qatargate investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mossad Director Maj.-Gen. (res.) Roman Gofman<\/a> will not handle any investigations into the “Qatargate<\/a>” affair due to a conflict of interest, The Jerusalem Post confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Gofman served as the Prime Minister’s military secretary from May 2024 until starting his tenure as Israel’s spy chief in June.<\/p>\n

“Qatargate” is an investigation concerning suspicions that Qatar-linked interests sought influence inside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>\u2019s wartime advisory circle.<\/p>\n

Given this, Gofman’s close association and personal relationship with his then-PMO colleagues is seen as a conflict of interest were he to take a role in the investigation.<\/p>\n

The Prosecutor’s Office was waiting for a security opinion from Mossad in order to determine whether “Qatargate” harmed national\u00a0security, N12 News reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Mossad decided to assign a professional from the spy agency to handle the affair, according to N12.<\/p>\n

The presentation of the opinion was delayed due to Gofman entering the role as Mossad<\/a> chief, N12 reported.<\/p>\n

Sarah Ben-Nun contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mossad Director Maj.-Gen. (res.) Roman Gofman will not handle any investigations into the “Qatargate” affair due to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,42,16096,43,2396,26420,99765,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-597722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-headlines","tag-mossad","tag-news","tag-prime-minister","tag-qatargate","tag-roman-gofman","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}