A bombshell was reported on Wednesday by Ynet stating that the real issue involving the “leaked documents’ case, leading to the arrests of Eli Feldstein and Ari Rosenblum, was vital intelligence information about a “foreign actor” involved in the October 7 massacre. Senior military intelligence officials were aware of the role of the “foreign actor” and became concerned when it became apparent that senior IDF officials were still stuck in the “conceptzia” and were hiding the information from the political leadership. Following the  October 7 massacre, military intelligence officers contacted Knesset member Amit Halevi (Likud) and informed him that there is a significant intelligence study regarding the involvement of a “foreign actor” in the Hamas attack but military intelligence is preventing its transfer to the political level. At that time, MK Halevi asked the National Security Council if such a document was known, and he received a negative response. Only afterward did the officers turn to reserve soldier Ari Rosenfeld, who is accused in the classified documents case, and emphasized to him that it was urgent to pass it on to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The existence of that document was first reported by Ynet. Six intelligence personnel, including three officers, collaborated after the massacre to compile a major study on the involvement of a foreign actor in the events of October 7. The most senior among them, an officer with the rank of Major, was arrested in the documents case but no charges have been filed against him. The officers believed that Israel’s political and military leadership were caught in a misconception regarding that foreign actor and they felt it was urgent to update senior IDF officials and the political echelon about their research. The intelligence personnel, from different units in military intelligence and also from another intelligence body that is banned from being named, sought to transfer the research to the political echelon, but they claim they were blocked within the military. Ynet is unaware whether the document was blocked as claimed or if it was transferred to the political level. The officers approached MK Halevi, shared the details of the research with him, and asked him to confirm whether the political level was aware of the matter. After Halevi contacted the National Security Council and was told that it is unaware of such research, intelligence officials approached Rosenfeld, requesting that he act to transfer the document to the Prime Minister. Rosenfeld complied with the officers’ request and met with Eli Feldstein, the Prime Minister’s spokesperson for security matters, at the shul in the Kirya base in Tel Aviv, where he handed him a document to inform Netanyahu of its existence. The identity of that  “foreign entity” cannot currently be revealed, but regarding the research, Judge Ala Masarwa wrote in December in a decision that was cleared for publication that it is related to the importance of the IDF’s presence in the Philadelphi Corridor [which borders Egypt]. The judge wrote that “regarding the additional document, Respondent 1 (Feldstein) knew it was based on classified intelligence, and he kept it in his home and waited for the right moment until the document would be relevant in the context of the discussion on the Philadelphi Corridor.” As far as is known, Feldstein did not pass the document to the Prime […]