Former Prime Minister spokesperson Yonathan Urich spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday after the restrictions imposed by the court for the Bild affair case were significantly eased.
The new restrictions include a prohibition on leaving the country and a ban on contacting those involved in the cases to speak about matters related to the investigation.
"After some time, I spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife, Sarah," Urich said in an X post after the judge's decision, while he also announced that he would keep working for Netanyahu.
The Bild affair case is an investigation into the leak of classified information to the German outlet Bild by people working for the Prime Minister's Office, with Urich as one of the main suspects. The other two suspects, Eli Feldstein and Ari Rosenfeld, have already been charged with serious offenses.
Urich has been summoned to a hearing in the affair before charges are filed, while the investigation is still seeking to collect testimony from Netanyahu for this case and the Midnight meeting case.
Urich is also a suspect in the "Qatargate" case, in which authorities allege that Urich and other aides received illicit payments from Qatari-linked sources to promote pro-Qatari messaging within Israel. Charges under consideration in this probe include bribery, contact with a foreign agent, and money laundering.
Braverman's restrictions also lifted
Also on Sunday, the police decided not to appeal the conditions of release for Tzachi Braverman, chief of staff at the Prime Minister's Office, in the Midnight meeting case, which is tied to the Bild affair, and has Braverman as the main suspect.
Braverman is under investigation in the obstruction case, which centers on suspicions that he warned former Netanyahu spokesman Eli Feldstein about a covert military investigation into the leak of a classified document to the German tabloid Bild and suggested he could “put it out” if the probe touched the Prime Minister’s Office.
Braverman's ban on leaving the country expired a few days ago, and he can apparently begin his role as Israel's ambassador to the UK, but this apparently depends on his procedure at the State Commission.
Sarah Ben-Nun contributed to this report.