Associates of the Israeli prime minister are accused of receiving money from Qatar.
The office of the Israeli prime minister yesterday denounced the transmission of “fake news” about a case involving Benjamin Netanyahu associates, who allegedly received money from Qatar.
This case, “Qatargate”, as the media was baptized, returned to the news yesterday by broadcasting by the Kan state radio network of an Israeli businessman’s recording, confirming that he had transferred money from Qatar to a prime minister’s office, He was then accused of another case.
“This new false information is a desperate attempt to build evidence of a non -existent crime,” the prime minister’s office said in a press release.
Following the publication of this recording, Eli Feldin’s lawyers said their client was unaware that this money was coming from Qatar.
This case, the details of which cannot be made public, was rekindled on Sunday when Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention to dismiss Sin Beet head, Internal Security Services, Ronen Bar.
“Since Sin Beth started investigating his office, Netanyahu decided to dismiss Ronen Bar in an illegal process,” opposition leader Yair Lapid wrote in his account in X.
“This dismissal aims to delay serious criminal investigation into crimes against state security committed within the prime minister’s office,” Lapid added.
The Israeli prime minister recently accused the bar, who was appointed in 2021 and expected to leave his position in 2026 of being responsible for a “campaign of threats and leaks to the media”.
According to him, investigations against his adviser “began after the media reported the possibility of ending” the duties of Sin Bet’s chief.
The announcement of this dismissal, which has not yet been ratified by the government, has sparked demonstrations yesterday in Tel Aviv and today in Jerusalem. The protesters accuse Netanyahu of anti -democratic aberrations.
The government also launched a cessation process against the country’s Attorney General, who informed the prime minister that his decision on Sin Beth’s leader could not be taken under existing circumstances without “complying with the rules designated by the government on this issue”.
Source: RES-EIA