The journalist being investigated in the 'Cattergate' affair is the editor of the Jerusalem Post, Zvika Klein. His attorney's office has authorized the publication of his name.
Klein was questioned under caution on suspicion of contact with a foreign agent. He is also alleged to have mediated between Prime Minister Eli Feldstein's spokesman, Israeli businessman Gil Birger, and Jay Potlik, an American citizen who served as a lobbyist for the Qatari government.
Klein's connection to Qatar will be examined as part of the police investigation. However, an investigation into a journalist under a warning for suspected contact with a foreign agent is an unusual event.
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Last year, he visited Qatar as a journalist, after receiving an official invitation from the country and subsequently published conversations with senior officials in the country.
Last February, Klein addressed the 'Kettergate' affair on his Twitter account - following a news report linking his name to the affair.
""The truth is that I have never met Eli Feldstein in my life," he wrote. "The first time I spoke with him (by phone) was after the visit to Qatar, as a PR person, as Raviv Drucker mentioned this evening, for the purpose of coordinating the interview between me and Drucker on Channel 13, as well as with Ofer Hadad on Channel 12.".
He added: "It was the Qatari government that approached us, the Jerusalem Post, because they knew that we are a balanced and influential media outlet, also read among government officials and influential American Jews - as many other countries do - and we have no need for intermediaries.".
Zvika Klein is a journalist who serves as the editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post newspaper. He previously served as an advisor to the President on Diaspora Jewry.
The police intend to collect testimony and question with a warning more media personnel who allegedly gave Qatar a platform due to the activities of Prime Minister's advisors Yonatan Urich and Eli Feldstein.
Earlier, it was reported on the B network that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his testimony that he was unaware of any connection between his advisors Yonatan Urich and Eli Feldstein and the locomotives.
In testimony he gave to police investigators last night, the prime minister was asked if he knew about Urich and Feldstein's connection with companies linked to Qatar, and he replied that he did not know about it.
