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Police argued that the Rishon Lezion Magistrate\u2019s Court erred when it canceled restrictions, including restrictions on Urich\u2019s employment and broad no-contact orders.<\/p>\n
Israel Police on Sunday filed an appeal to the Lod District Court seeking to overturn a magistrate\u2019s court decision that lifted most restrictive conditions imposed on Yonatan Urich<\/a>, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in connection with the classified documents leak known as the \u201cBild affair.\u201d<\/p>\n In the appeal, police argued that the Rishon Lezion Magistrate\u2019s Court erred when it canceled restrictions, including a ban on Urich\u2019s employment in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office<\/a> and at the consulting firm Perception, as well as broad no-contact orders. Police also requested a stay of execution, warning that the immediate removal of the conditions poses a risk to the integrity of the ongoing investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n The appeal follows a Thursday ruling by Magistrate\u2019s Court President Judge Menachem Mizrahi, who sharply criticized the police investigation and ordered most of the conditions against Urich lifted, leaving in place only financial guarantees and a 60-day limited no-contact order with Eli Feldstein and Israel Einhorn.<\/p>\n In their filing, police maintained that Urich is suspected of serious security offenses, including the delivery, possession, and destruction of classified information, some allegedly carried out with the intent to harm state security. According to investigators, the evidentiary foundation against Urich remains substantial and was wrongly discounted by the magistrate\u2019s court at this procedural stage.<\/p>\n Police argued that Mizrahi improperly weighed the credibility of Feldstein – a central figure in the case – and parsed individual pieces of evidence in isolation, rather than assessing the cumulative evidentiary picture. At the stage of reviewing restrictive conditions, the appeal stresses, the legal threshold is reasonable suspicion – not proof beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/p>\nUrich suspected of serious security offenses<\/h3>\n