According to Ynet, following the October 7 massacre, Military Intelligence officers contacted Likud MK Amit Halevi about important intelligence research regarding a "foreign entity's" involvement in Hamas's attack. They claimed Military Intelligence prevented the research from reaching political leadership.
When MK Halevi tried to verify with the National Security Council (NSC) if they were aware of the document, he received a negative response.
Subsequently, the officers approached NCO Ari Rosenfeld, who is accused in the classified documents case, requesting his help in transferring the research to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The research initiators claimed it was urgent to update political and military leadership about the findings, as they believed there was a misconception about the foreign entity. The attempt to transfer the document to political leadership was blocked within the IDF. Nevertheless, Rosenfeld passed part of the document to the Prime Minister's security spokesman, Eli Feldstein, hoping he would inform Netanyahu.
However, Feldstein did not forward the document to the Prime Minister, and it was found in his home when he was arrested.
Rosenfeld's defense attorney, Uri Korb, revealed this during the court hearing before Judge Stein: "Six intelligence personnel, three officers from different units, sat together and wrote research spanning dozens of pages, starting in 2018, to prove that the perception regarding a foreign entity was wrong."
Rosenfeld's attorneys, Uri Korb, Sivan Russo, and Yehoshua Lamberger, told Ynet: "The officers who tried to transfer the information to political leadership and were blocked by the IDF worked with Ari to inform political leadership about the document, to prevent a similar incident. The officers were interrogated under difficult conditions and later released. Ari regrets his action and this matter is expected to be clarified in court."
So now Rosenfeld sits behind bars for attempting to expose critical intelligence about foreign involvement in the October 7 massacre - intelligence that six military officers believed was so vital they risked their careers to bring it forward. These weren't low-level grunts or conspiracy theorists - they were experienced intelligence officers desperate to break through a bureaucratic wall of silence that could cost more Israeli lives.
The sheer absurdity of this situation should enrage every citizen who values truth and security over institutional ego. Here we have dedicated intelligence professionals who identified potentially game-changing information about foreign involvement in the worst terrorist attack in Israel's history. They followed proper channels. They were stonewalled. When they finally found someone willing to listen - MK Amit Halevi - they discovered their crucial findings had been buried so deep even the National Security Council claimed ignorance.
Enter Rosenfeld, who made the fateful choice to place national security above blind obedience. His reward? Criminal charges and public humiliation, while the same institutional machinery that failed to prevent October 7 continues grinding along, apparently more concerned with protecting its turf than protecting Israeli lives.
This isn't just about one soldier or one document. It's about a system so broken, so invested in protecting its own bureaucratic fiefdoms, that it would rather imprison those who expose its failures than address the deadly serious issues they raise. Six intelligence officers - six! - believed this information was critical to preventing another massacre. Instead of heeding their warning, we've shot the messenger.
The cruel irony is that Rosenfeld's "crime" was trying to prevent exactly the kind of institutional blindness that led to October 7 in the first place. How many more warnings need to be ignored? How many more truth-tellers need to be silenced?
When soldiers who act to protect their country face harsher consequences than those who bury critical intelligence, we've lost our moral compass. Rosenfeld deserves a medal, not a cell. And those responsible for suppressing this intelligence deserve to face the families of October 7 and explain why their bureaucratic comfort was worth more than the truth.
The state may have locked up Ari Rosenfeld's body, but they've imprisoned something far more precious - our right to know what forces truly threaten our nation, and our duty to speak that truth, no matter how uncomfortable it makes those in power.
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