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Former military spokesman for the prime minister's office, Eli Feldstein, gave a public interview on Monday for the first time since he was accused over the Bild and Qatargate cases, where he said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that the topic of responsibility for the October 7 attack be "erased from the public discourse."

“The first and biggest task that I had after October 7 was erasing the concept of [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s] responsibility from the public discourse,” Feldstein said in the interview aired by KAN News.

“They told me to take the word responsibility out of the lexicon and formulate something without the word responsibility, it won’t go in,” he explained. ...

Finally, he addressed both cases, stating that he was not granted a security clearance because he was classified as “independent.”
“I didn’t know I was receiving money from Qatar, I just did what I was told under the fear of being fired,” Feldstein assured.

He is currently accused of leaking sensitive information to the German newspaper Bild while working in the Prime Minister’s Office, and of being among those who received payments from Qatar in the Qatargate scandal.

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennet said that the scandal was a “betrayal against the State of Israel and IDF soldiers in wartime, and acted on Qatar's behalf out of greed, while Netanyahu himself seeks to cover up the affair."

Bennett added, "Whether Netanyahu knew or did not know that his office was working for money for an enemy during wartime, both scenarios require his immediate resignation.”

Opposition leader Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid), called it the "most serious treason case in the history of the State.”