Netanyahu's advisors who 'harassed' Filber establish joint business venture with him

November 11, 2021   

Ofer Golan and Yonatan Urich, two advisors to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, were questioned about two years ago on suspicion of harassing one of the state's witnesses in Case 4000 - Shlomo Filber. Since then, this criminal proceeding has been conducted in court no less than seven times, and these days they are awaiting a decision by a panel of nine Supreme Court judges. However, recently - as senior political commentator Amit Segal revealed this evening on Channel 12 - one of those "harassing" advisors is allegedly seeking to cooperate with the "harassed". The prosecutor in the Netanyahu trial, Attorney Yehudit Tirosh, received a request from advisor Yonatan Urich, which indicates that he is in talks to establish business cooperation with Filber, the owner of the strategy and research company Direct Falls, in political campaigns in Israel and abroad. And if that is not enough, then at the same time, similar contacts are also taking place with the second suspect in Filber's harassment, Ofer Golan. Segal also notes that while legally the desire of the two alleged "harassers" to cooperate with Filber is meaningless, from a public perspective it is a blow to the prosecution: If Filber feels so disturbed and threatened by Urich and Golan, how is it that in the midst of the proceedings against them he is cooperating with them? This is especially striking given the fact that Filber himself stated in real time, through his lawyer, that he did not feel threatened. Prosecutor Tirosh was forced to approve this cooperation, after making it clear to the two that they were not allowed to talk about Netanyahu's cases - or about the affair itself. As you may recall, about two years ago Golan and Urich were questioned by the police on suspicion of harassing Filber by sending a car with speakers installed to his house - after he signed a state witness agreement against Netanyahu in Case 4,000.