Former prime minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday called on the Shin Bet and Israel Police to push forward with the Qatargate investigation "to the very end."
"This is the most serious act of treason in the history of the State of Israel, because it does not come from marginal figures like the spies Udi Adiv or Mordechai Vanunu, but from the most senior and powerful individuals in Israel," he said.
Bennett stated that while he would not claim Netanyahu ordered his advisers to act on behalf of Qatar, he should have "been the first to cry out and take action" when the affair was revealed.
"Why is Netanyahu silent? Why has he continued, to this very moment, to cover up the betrayal in his office?" Bennett asked.
PMO calls Bennett 'arch-conman,' inventing 'blood libels'
The Prime Minister's Office issued a response to the statement, calling Bennett an "arch-conman," and that what he was saying was "the invention of blood libels."
"Shrulik Einhorn and Eli Feldstein were never part of the Prime Minister’s Office," the PMO stated.
"Bennett betrayed his voters when he formed a government with the Muslim Brotherhood, which Bennett himself defined as a sister movement of Hamas. Bennett will betray again, exactly as his partners Yair Golan and Gadi Eisenkot have said. He will once again try to form an extreme left-wing government that relies on the Muslim Brotherhood."
The PMO accused Bennett of "recycling lies in order to divert attention from the serious materials uncovered in the hack of his phone and concealed from the public."
"Bennett knows that the court has already ruled that “Qatargate” is “Qatar-fake” and that no offense was committed."