Benny Gantz, leader of the National Unity Party, is calling for a reexamination of the decision to place The Jerusalem Post's editor-in-chief under house arrest. Gantz believes that investigations or arrests of journalists should only occur when there is clear criminal suspicion. He is urging the attorney-general and state prosecutor to thoroughly examine the necessity of the house arrest, taking into account the potential harm to freedom of the press. The editor-in-chief, Zvika Klein, was questioned by police as part of an investigation into actions by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's aides, but the nature of any allegations against him has not been specified.
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