Netanyahu accuses Israeli police of trying to 'topple' his government

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Israeli constabulary of trying to "topple" his authorities implicit what helium believes is simply a "political witch hunt." In a video connection released connected Monday, Netanyahu claimed the constabulary had nary grounds against the 2 aides who were arrested.

Netanyahu was summoned connected Monday to attest arsenic portion of an ongoing probe into alleged fiscal ties betwixt his bureau and Qatar. The premier curate claimed that helium was questioned for an hr earlier helium demanded to spot evidence. He said determination was nothing.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a connection connected Tuesday, March 18, 2025, successful Tel Aviv, Israel. (Israeli Government Press Office via AP)

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Eli Feldstein and Yonatan Urich, the aides Netanyahu named successful the video, were allegedly arrested connected Monday successful transportation with the investigation. According to reports, Feldstein – a erstwhile subordinate of Netanyahu’s squad – is suspected of passing messages to journalists connected behalf of Qatar portion moving successful the premier minister’s office.

The messages Feldstein is accused of sending to the media allegedly pertained to Qatar’s relation successful negotiating the instrumentality of Israeli hostages, among different things, Israel HaYom reported.

However, the lawsuit remains nether a gag order, truthful charges against Feldstein and Urich person not been officially released. The Washington Post reported, citing Israeli media, that Urich and Feldstein are accused of interaction with a overseas agent, bribery and fraud.

People protestation against the authorities and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and request the merchandise of each hostages kidnapped during the Oct. 7, 2023, panic onslaught by Hamas, successful Jerusalem, March 31, 2025. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)

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The Jerusalem Post confirmed connected Tuesday that its editor-in-chief, Zivka Klein, was questioned by constabulary successful transportation with the Qatar probe. Klein has antecedently denied having a transportation with Feldstein aft an Israeli outlet reported that the erstwhile Netanyahu adjutant arranged a travel to Qatar for the journalist.

Netanyahu says the probe, often referred to arsenic "Qatargate," is intended to halt him from firing Shin Bet main Ronen Bar, who heads the Israeli equivalent of the FBI.

Last month, Netanyahu announced that helium would question to oust Bar implicit alleged "ongoing distrust." However, immoderate fishy that it is related to the Shin Bet’s appraisal of Oct. 7, which "pointed to a argumentation led by the government, and the idiosyncratic who has headed it, for years, with accent connected the twelvemonth preceding the massacre," the Times of Israel reported.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar (Reuters)

Bar slammed Netanyahu’s "expectation of a work of idiosyncratic loyalty, the intent of which contradicts the nationalist interest, is simply a fundamentally illegitimate expectation," according to the Times of Israel. 

Israel's High Court froze Bar’s removal, which was acceptable for April 8, but allowed Netanyahu to interrogation imaginable replacements. Netanyahu’s bureau announced connected Monday that helium had tapped a erstwhile Israeli Navy commander, Vice Adm. Eli Sharvit, to regenerate Bar.

"Sharvit served successful the IDF for 36 years, including 5 years arsenic commandant of the Israel Navy. In that position, helium led the unit gathering of the maritime defence of the territorial waters and conducted analyzable operations against Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran," Netanyahu’s bureau tweeted.

Fox News Digital's Alex Nitzberg and Yonat Friling contributed to this report.