Police on Monday declared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Serbian-based ex-campaign adviser Yisrael Einhorn to be a “fugitive criminal” and said there was an arrest warrant out for him.

It was the first time the police had made the declaration about the premier’s former aide, who is a suspect in both the Qatargate and leaked documents scandals.

The statement came during a hearing in which police sought a two-month extension on the release conditions placed on Jonatan Urich, another former close aide to Netanyahu, involving the theft of classified IDF documents and the leaking of one of them to the German daily, Bild.

The conditions include a ban on communication with other people involved in the scandal, as well as a prohibition on returning to work in the Prime Minister’s Office.

“Einhorn is a suspect in this affair and is being investigated for offenses of passing on confidential information, and an........

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