Former IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi has been summoned to testify as part of the "Bild Affair" investigation, with the aim of clarifying how the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff, Tzachi Braverman, knew about a classified investigation being conducted in the IDF into the leaking of classified documents to the German newspaper Bild.
This is to understand the chain of events from the moment an internal investigation was decided upon in the army until the information allegedly reached Braverman or Netanyahu's office.
The former Chief of Staff's testimony ended after about 6 hours.
The Rishon LeZion Magistrate's Court today heard appeals filed by Netanyahu's associates - Tzachi Braverman and Omer Mansour, demanding that the conditions of their removal from the Prime Minister's Office for 15 days be lifted.
The two were questioned following Eli Feldstein's interview on Kan 11, in which he said that Braverman met him late at night in an underground parking lot in Kirya in Tel Aviv, told him about the covert investigation against him and told him that he could "turn it off.".
Judge Menachem Mizrahi confirmed during the hearing that, at the request of the police, he issued an order to receive the raw materials from the interview at Kan 11.
During the hearing, Judge Mizrahi criticized the police: "If this is key evidence - how can they settle for something edited?" he wondered. The police relied on a filmed version of the broadcast itself for the purpose of interrogating Braverman and spokesman Omar Mansour.
The judge also said in the hearing that he did not understand why Mansour, who according to Feldstein's testimony only held his and Braverman's phones aside during their meeting and did not know the content, was being questioned as a suspect. "It is terrible that he was being questioned with a warning," said Judge Mizrahi.
Mizrahi even asked the police to forward to the defense attorneys Eli Feldstein's "cleanliness testimony" given as part of the ongoing negotiations for a state witness agreement, to see if Braverman's name had already come up at that time.
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