{"id":51728,"date":"2025-08-17T15:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/police-appeal-magistrate-courts-decision-to-allow-urich-to-meet-with-pm\/17\/08\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T15:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:06:01","slug":"police-appeal-magistrate-courts-decision-to-allow-urich-to-meet-with-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/police-appeal-magistrate-courts-decision-to-allow-urich-to-meet-with-pm\/17\/08\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal Magistrate Court’s decision to allow Urich to meet with PM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What police tried to do in this case is prove that Yonatan Urich worked as a public servant, including gathering testimonies from various defense officials.<\/p>\n

The Israel Police appealed on Sunday a decision issued last week by Rishon Lezion Magistrate\u2019s Court Judge Menahem Mizrahi to allow Yonatan Urich to return to work at the Prime Minister\u2019s Office. Urich is an aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a main suspect in the \u201cQatargate<\/a>\u201d investigation into allegations that aides to the prime minister were influenced by lobbyists on behalf of Qatar.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no allowance to allow [Urich<\/a>] to return to the same location from which he carried out his alleged crimes,\u201d the police said.<\/p>\n

Lod District Court Judge Amit Michles plans to conduct a hearing on the matter on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The police have tried to prove \u2013 including from testimonies by defense officials \u2013 that Urich was a public servant in his role as an aide. Establishing this would make the case stronger that Urich had operated against Israeli interests.<\/p>\n

Was Netanyahu aware of Urich’s work with Qatar?<\/h3>\n

According to the appeal, the prime minister was not aware of the full extent of Urich\u2019s work with Qatar based on the available evidence.<\/p>\n

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