Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is set to indict Tzachi Braverman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, on charges of obstruction of justice, fraud and breach of trust, pending a hearing, the State Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday morning.

The charges relate to a meeting Braverman held with Eli Feldstein, a media adviser to Netanyahu, in October 2024, in which Braverman allegedly informed Feldstein that there was an investigation being conducted into the leak of classified documents to the German Bild newspaper, and that he could quash the investigation if it was connected to Feldstein.

Feldstein and another key suspect were arrested several days after the meeting, and were subsequently indicted on charges of transferring classified documentation, among others, relating to the leak of the documents to Bild.

Braverman has been designated as Israel’s next ambassador to the United Kingdom, but the ongoing investigation into the affair has prevented him from taking up the appointment.

His lawyers said in response to the announcement that the attorney general’s decision was “a mistake that continues the severe injustice that has already been done to Mr. Braverman.”

The Bild affair was triggered by the execution of six Israeli hostages at the hands of their Hamas captors at the end of August 2024, an event that sparked massive public uproar against the government.

Feldstein has said he leaked the document to the newspaper in order to buttress Netanyahu’s claims that it was Hamas, not the prime minister, who was holding up a........

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