Police provided evidence on Sunday demonstrating that Jonatan Urich, a key suspect in the leaked documents affair, knew about the classified document that was leaked to the Bild newspaper, and the fact that it was going to be leaked.

The police also provided evidence that Urich knew of a second classified document that was also illegally removed from the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate, although ultimately not leaked to the press.

The information was included in an appeal by the police to the Lod District Court against a lower court decision last week to lift restrictions on Urich.

That decision also removed restrictions that had been placed on Tzachi Braverman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, who was questioned last week over suspicions he sought to quash an investigation into the affair.

The Bild affair revolves around the allegedly unlawful removal of sensitive and classified documents from IDF Military Intelligence by a reservist NCO, Ari Rosenfeld, and the leaking of one of those documents to the Bild newspaper by Feldstein.

The document in question was an internal Hamas memo purporting to show that the terror group was not interested in the compromises necessary to reach a hostage deal. It was leaked to defend Netanyahu’s position that only further military pressure would lead to the release of the hostages in the face of a severe public backlash to the murder of six hostages in Gaza at the end of August.

Last month, Feldstein gave an interview to the Kan public........

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