AG lets police summon Netanyahu to testify on claims against chief of staff – reports

Times of Israel · Feb 25, 2026 · Collected from RSS

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PM not expected to be questioned as a suspect, but senior law enforcement source tells Channel 12 ‘there was no escape’ from him having to testify about Tzachi Braverman 25 February 2026, 11:03 pm Edit Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara on Wednesday authorized police to summon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to provide testimony on allegations relating to his chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, according to Hebrew media reports. Netanyahu is not expected to be questioned as a suspect in the case, and no date has yet been given for the testimony. Police are looking into claims that Braverman attempted to obstruct an investigation over allegations that he told Eli Feldstein, a former spokesperson for Netanyahu, that he could quash a secret military investigation into Feldstein over the leak of a classified document to the German newspaper Bild. According to Haaretz, Netanyahu will be questioned about the manner in which Braverman was able to learn of the secret investigation into Feldstein. A senior law enforcement official was quoted by Channel 12 that “there was no escape” from Netanyahu having to give testimony about the allegations against Braverman. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories By signing up, you agree to the terms Braverman, who was designated to be ambassador to the United Kingdom in September but has yet to take up the post, is currently barred from leaving the country and cannot contact Netanyahu or other officials in the Prime Minister’s Office as conditions for his release from detention, which were extended again on Wednesday. Eli Feldstein, a former media adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and one of the suspects in the so-called Qatargate investigation, as well as a defendant in the Bild leak scandal, speaks to the Kan public broadcaster in an interview aired December 22, 2025. (Screen capture/YouTube) The investigation into Braverman is focused on an alleged nighttime meeting he set up in the underground parking lot of the IDF’s Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv with Feldstein in October 2024. During the meeting, Feldstein alleges that Braverman told him he was aware of what should have been a secret IDF investigation into Feldstein’s leak of classified intelligence, which Braverman said he could quash. The investigation into Braverman stems from the broader investigation into the Bild leaked documents affair, in which Feldstein and a reservist NCO who leaked him the material have already been indicted, and in which two other senior aides to Netanyahu, Jonatan Urich and Israel Einhorn, are key suspects. The documents purported to show that the Hamas leadership was not interested in a ceasefire and hostage release deal, and were leaked as part of an effort to buttress Netanyahu’s claim that it was not he who was holding up such an agreement. Feldstein, Urich and Einhorn are all also implicated in the Qatargate investigation, in which they are suspected of taking money to spearhead a public relations campaign to cast Qatar in a positive light for over a year after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, despite the Gulf state’s strong ties to the terror group, and while Feldstein and Urich were working as aides to Netanyahu. If you’d like to comment, join The Times of Israel Community.