Supreme Court: There was a defect in the search of Netanyahu's advisers' phones, but evidence can be used | Israel Today

The Supreme Court this morning (Tuesday) rejected the request of former Netanyahu's advisers, Ofer Golan and Yonatan Orich, to hold another hearing on the issue of searching their cell phones, as part of the investigation on suspicion of harassing the state witness in the 4000 Shlomo (Momo) Pilber case.

However, the court criticized the police and ruled that the searches were "done illegally". The decision reads: "The court ruled in the majority opinion that the hearing of the investigating authority's request for a search of computer material will take place unilaterally with the court's approval. .

In the Orich case, it was determined that "although the initial search of the applicants' mobile phones was carried out without a court order and in violation of the law, an examination of all the relevant considerations shows that this defect does not justify the rejection of the requests to search their phones." It is wrong in the conduct of the investigating authority in the case of the applicants in the Urich case, and that it is to be expected that such cases will not recur. "

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