Defense Minister Israel Katz signed off on a confidentiality agreement last week that will allow Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to file an indictment against MK Tally Gotliv for allegedly violating the Shin Bet law by disclosing the identity of an agent of the security service, Hebrew media reported Friday.

Gotliv was summoned for police questioning over the affair twice, but she refused to show up, claiming her actions were covered by parliamentary immunity.

The indictment was therefore prepared without her ever giving testimony, and has been ready for the past nine months, Ynet and the Kan public broadcaster reported.

It has not been filed, however, because Katz refused to sign the certificate of confidentiality required for any case with classified, sensitive evidence. Without the certificate, the indictment cannot be filed, and the case cannot advance.

According to reports, however, the defense minister, who, like Gotliv, is a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, was forced to sign the certificate on Thursday after the Shin Bet warned him that failure to do so could harm national security.

In a letter dated April 20, the Shin Bet informed Katz that the agency’s director, David Zini, had conducted “an additional review regarding the need for confidentiality of certain investigative materials in the case in question.”

“The examination revealed that national security........

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