Israeli police released Jonatan Urich, a media adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to house arrest after a court order amid investigations into allegations of receiving money from Qatar to promote its image in the Israeli media.
According to the public broadcaster KAN, Urich, alongside Eli Feldstein, another Netanyahu aide, is suspected of involvement in "a series of serious offences, including bribery, fraud, breach of trust, leaking classified information, money laundering and contact with a foreign agent".
According to the testimony from an unnamed investigator, Urich allegedly "passed messages to the press under the prime minister's office name, believed to have been relayed through a party with financial and political ties to Qatar, appearing as if from an official or security source", KAN said.