Into the Wrong Hands

 https://mishpacha.com/into-the-wrong-hands/

Why is Ari Rosenfeld, the noncommissioned officer and cyber expert who bypassed military protocol in order to get a document outlining Hamas’s backroom plans directly onto the desk of the prime minister, still languishing in prison? His father, Rabbi Shmuel Rosenfeld, a veteran immigrant from New York and recognized expert in the world of safrus and Sta”m, is asking the same question

The indictment alleges that Rosenfeld gave a top-secret document to Feldstein, believing it to be imperative for the prime minister to receive directly and realizing that it would likely get stonewalled if sent through the official chain of command.

Feldstein did not immediately pass on the document, though. At the beginning of September, he attempted to leak its contents to Israeli media, in order to counter mass protests that broke out after six bodies of executed hostages were retrieved from Gaza, to alleviate criticism against Netanyahu and to reduce the public pressure from the left to railroad a very bad deal for Israel following the murders.

But the military censor prohibited its publication, assumedly because it might have derailed a certain political agenda. Yet Netanyahu himself didn’t seem to have a problem with the leak — he even referred to the Bild story in a September 8 cabinet meeting, saying it revealed that Hamas planned “to tear us apart from within” but that “the great majority of Israel’s citizens are not falling into this Hamas trap.”