High Court weighs Assenheim appeal over release of Feldstein interview raw footage

The justices repeatedly returned to the breadth of the police request for the full footage, with Isaac Amit suggesting that a demand for everything risked resembling a “fishing expedition. " The High Court of Justice on Monday heard journalist Omri Assenheim’s appeal against lower-court rulings ordering him to hand over raw footage from his interview with Eli Feldstein to the police, in a case that has quickly become a broader test of the scope of journalistic privilege in Israel.