Netanyahu denounces leaks investigations and arrests as ‘witchhunt’

According to TOI, the Prime Minister hit out at the way the suspects had been detained.

“This reality, in which young people are held like the worst terrorists, handcuffed for days, days in which they are prevented from accessing their lawyers, and violating their basic rights as citizens, shakes me,” he said.

He dismissed accusations that the two men intended to harm state security as “despicable” and “ridiculous’.

“I know Eli Feldstein,” the Prime Minister said. “We are talking about an Israeli patriot, a passionate Zionist.”

“There is no chance that he would do something to intentionally harm the country’s security,” he claimed.

He also complained that sometimes classified documents were not being passed on to him. “I am the prime minister. I need to receive important classified documents, and indeed sometimes important information doesn’t reach me,” he said.