Half a million shekels: Nir Hafetz sues Yair Netanyahu for breach of privacy

The state witness in Case 4000 filed a lawsuit against the prime minister's son for allegations of publicity on the part of details prohibited in his investigation. This, in addition to a lawsuit filed by the objector against Minister Ohana and the media man in Radogo, also half a million shekels

Half a million shekels: Nir Hafetz sues Yair Netanyahu for breach of privacy

The state witness in the 4000 file, Nir Hafetz, filed a lawsuit against Yair Netanyahu, the son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday, for half a million shekels. The cause of the lawsuit is a violation of privacy, due to the claim that Netanyahu published the bans in the publication of his investigation. Heifetz also sued Justice Minister Amir Ohana and media man Yaakov Bardugo, who allegedly released details prohibited from his investigation, also for half a million shekels.

After the publication in News 12, he suspected that the investigators were applying undue pressure on an object, Justice Minister Ohana used his immunity and revealed in the plenum the introduction of prohibited details. In response, the political system attacked him and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that "despite the extortion affair of the state witness, Nir Hafetz is extremely serious and should be harassing every citizen, the court's prohibition order imposed by the court must be respected."

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Last month, the court allowed the publication that as part of an investigation by Netanyahu's former communications consultant before becoming a state witness in Case 4000, a figure was summoned to testify and asked intrusive questions about the nature of her relationship with him. Attorney Shuli Eshbol's attorney has been banned from publishing the figure whose details were banned for questioning. "The shocking injury to the character I represent is unimaginable." Eshbol said, "The publications in recent days pose an explicit threat to its safety and security, and the publication of details by powerful and powerful elements My government constitutes harassment and serious harm on the part of those who hold this power and exploit their immunity in a way that the legislature intended. "

At the end of last month, when the lawsuit was filed against Ohana, Hefetz's attorneys said: "The Minister of Justice has improperly, maliciously and maliciously exploited the Knesset's stage to harm Nir Hefetz and his family and try to oust him from the testimony given to the enforcement authorities. If Mr. Ohana builds the immunity screen The same of his grave actions, as he had planned when he read the offensive speech from the reporter, a mistake in his hands. "

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