Likud MK ejected from Qatargate hearing, compares security guard to 'Judenrat'

Likud MK Tally Gotliv is forcibly ejected from a court hearing on the Qatargate affair for constantly interrupting proceedings, and compares the security guard who removed her to Jews who worked with the Nazis during the Holocaust.

The hearing in the Lod – Central District Court concerns a police appeal against a lower court decision to remove the restrictive conditions on Jonatan Urich, a key aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a central suspect in the Qatargate scandal. Those restrictions include a ban on contacting other figures connected to the Qatargate affair, as well as anyone working in the Prime Minister’s Office, including Netanyahu himself.

After Judge Amit Michles orders Gotliv to be removed from the courtroom, the incendiary MK refuses, claiming she has parliamentary immunity, the Kan public broadcaster reports.

After she refuses a request from security guards to leave of her own accord, Gotliv is physically removed by the guards. On the way out she calls one of the guards “an animal.” Outside the courtroom, after he tells her he was doing his job, she responds, “It’s not your job. The Judenraete also had [work].”

ועכשיו עם התיעוד:

ח"כ טלי גוטליב לאיש משמר בתי המשפט שהוציא אותה מהדיון: "בהמה"

איש המשמר: "אני עושה את העבודה שלי"

גוטליב: "זו לא העבודה שלך. גם ליודנרט היו" pic.twitter.com/RfYcWeLRCn

— רועי ינובסקי (@Roi_Yanovsky) August 19, 2025

The Judenraete were Nazi-established Jewish administrative councils that were forced to ensure Nazi orders were implemented.

During the hearing, a police investigator tells the court that the investigation had led to a “substantive suspicion” that, following the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre, Israeli officials had worked to build for Qatar “an orchestrated plan… to change the negative narrative created against it” due to Doha’s funding for Hamas.

“Urich, together with others, played an active role in executing that plan, in parallel with his work in the Prime Minister’s Office,” says the investigator.

Urich is suspected of multiple offenses tied to his work for a pro-Qatar lobbying firm. He is suspected of contact with a foreign agent and breach of trust due to what prosecutors believe were his efforts to improve Qatar’s image as hostage-release and ceasefire negotiation mediators, while working as an adviser to Netanyahu at the same time.