Senior official allegedly told ex-Netanyahu aide he could 'silence' IDF leak investigation
The ex-Netanyahu spokesman told Shin Bet investigators he feared revealing the official's identity would open a 'crazy Pandora's box' and put him at risk. A memorandum noted: 'We will get to the whole truth with or without him,' more than a year before police acted on the claim
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The ex-Netanyahu spokesman told Shin Bet investigators he feared revealing the official's identity would open a 'crazy Pandora's box' and put him at risk. A memorandum noted: 'We will get to the whole truth with or without him,' more than a year before police acted on the claim
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05:54 AM • December 27 2025 IST
Eli Feldstein, the former spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told Shin Bet security service investigators last year that a "senior official in the Prime Minister's Office" had told him he could "silence" an IDF investigation into the leak of highly classified documents to the German newspaper Bild.
