The prime minister's son deleted the tweet following the court's instructions • He was also banned from harassing them for six months • Netanyahu responded: "The judge completely ignored the materials submitted to her"

The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court today (Sunday) ordered Yair Netanyahu, the son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to remove from his Twitter account the tweet he published that included the personal details of some of the protest organizers against his father. It was also determined that Netanyahu should not bother them for six months.

Photo: Yoni Rickner

Judge Dorit Feinstein accepted the petitioners' demand to issue against Netanyahu, who did not appear at the hearing, an order to prevent threatening harassment, and ruled that "I order the respondent to remove the disturbing tweet from his Twitter page, and instruct him for a period of six months to refrain from harassing the applicants. And a way to include through another. " She further wrote in the ruling that she "provides that an order for the prevention of threatening harassment is issued prohibiting the respondent from publishing anything that may bother the applicants threatening harassment, including their personal details, even if they can be obtained with reasonable effort."

The judge further wrote that "in view of the fact that the respondent did not provide explanations at the hearing for his intention in the tweet, did not rebuke followers who called for violence and did not remove the tweet despite the violent discourse he provoked, there is a fear that the respondent will harass the applicants and harm both their privacy and peace of mind." The many responses that the tweet in question received received messages that had a violent touch.

Feinstein also referred to the claim that the High Court allowed the demonstrations against Spokesman Avichai Mandelblit and other public figures to take place: "It is doubtful in my view whether a demonstration in front of the house of protesters is lawful as a demonstration in front of the house of public figures, and it is doubtful. The prime minister's house is turning them into public figures for the time being. "

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In response to the ruling, Netanyahu responded on his Twitter account and in a tweet he wrote: "The judge said I should remove the tweet (and I did). This is a tweet in which I uploaded a screenshot from the Registrar of Associations that is visible to everyone in a Google search. She completely ignored all material represented by Yossi Cohen (representing "Netanyahu, Y.A.) was presented to her for their calls for murder against me, and it did not seem to interest her at all."

A similar post that Netanyahu posted on his Facebook account was deleted by employees of the social network, according to them, claiming that the social network does not allow the dissemination of personal information or the lack of people without their approval.

Before the ruling was issued, the organizers of the protests against Yair's father exchanged accusations with Adv. Cohen. Adv. Gonen Ben Yitzhak, who represents the activists of the "Crime Minister" movement, said during the hearing that "we are after a weekend of constant harassment and threats against my son. The family, and all this because the respondent disseminated details and actually called to come and do justice to us. If that was not enough, even after we submitted the application for an order, it did not deter him from underestimating the legal process and continuing to spread these things. And we will burn them with their families, 'which he did not demand to be removed or condemned. "

Advocate Cohen said at the hearing that “they are doing in the ugliest way what they are complaining about themselves. No offense was committed here. There is no doubt that the publication is a total photocopy of a public document of the Registrar of Associations. There is no call for violence here and we oppose any violence of any kind. They come with a megaphone outside the prime minister's residence, screaming ugly curses. "They are corrupting an entire country, and they are complaining that they wrote a post about them demonstrating in front of their house?"

The Crime Minister movement stated: "The little instigator from Balfour and a friend of his encountered 120 km / h on the solid wall of our State of Israel. There are judges in Jerusalem, and the court has said so far today to allow blood and incitement against citizens who demonstrate legally against the prime minister, and that due to Yair Netanyahu's publications receive threats on their lives. Another brick in the Balfour Wall fell today. We will continue to demonstrate and fight until the upcoming victory. "