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Legal sources estimate: Adelson's death will not significantly harm the 2000 case
The indictment alleges that Netanyahu contacted the publisher Israel Today, with whom he had close ties, after his talks with Mozes, which dealt with the imposition of restrictions on the newspaper.
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Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 22:05
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In the video: Netanyahu pays tribute to Sheldon Adelson (Photo: GPO)
Legal sources estimate that the death of Israel Today publisher Sheldon Adelson will not dramatically affect the 2000 case. This is even though Adelson was supposed to testify in the case on behalf of the prosecution.
Case 2000 deals with talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Noni Moses.
The talks discussed in various ways the imposition of such and such restrictions on Israel Today, Yedioth Ahronoth's main competitor, in exchange for improving the coverage of Netanyahu and his family members in the group's media.
Thus, according to the indictment, at meetings held in 2008 and 2009, Netanyahu and Mozes reached an understanding that the latter "will affect the way Netanyahu is covered in the media by the Yedioth Ahronoth group, and in return, defendant Netanyahu will work to persuade Adelson to block the final edition." "Israel Today."
Following this, defendant Netanyahu turned to Adelson and asked him to postpone the upload of the weekend edition. The weekend edition was first published about a year later, in November 2009. "
Similar things are described about meetings held in 2013.
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However, these meetings appear as part of the background facts in the indictment, and are not part of the indictment itself, which concerns the round of talks held between Netanyahu and Mozes in 2014.
In the same talks, some of which were recorded at the request of the prime minister by his then chief of staff and current state councilor, Ari Haru, Mozes offers Netanyahu to change the systemic line in Yedioth in favor of the prime minister, in exchange for a law restricting Israel today.
Because of this, Moses is currently accused of offering bribes.
Unlike Yedioth Ahronoth, Netanyahu is not accused of bribery in this case, but of fraud and breach of trust. The reason is that Attorney General Mandelblit was convinced that he had no intention of completing the deal that Moses offered him - but he continued to hold talks with Moses in the hope that He will pass the law, buy him better coverage at least for the 2015 election period.
In this conduct, according to the indictment, "Netanyahu used his office to obtain a personal benefit, and materially violated the purity of public service and public trust in him," and allegedly committed an offense of fraud. And breach of trust.
Mandelblit was convinced that Netanyahu had no intention of completing the deal.
Noni Mozes outside the offices of Lahav 433 (Photo: Talia Kadosh)
If Netanyahu was accused of bribery in this case, as former State Attorney Shai Nitzan and prosecutor Liat Ben-Ari requested, then the prime minister's references to Adelson from 2008 and 2013 were critical to prove that he actually intended to fulfill the deal and even allegedly considered options.
However, the indictment that was eventually filed attributes to Netanyahu an offense only in talks with Mozes in 2014, and also due to actions he carried out around them such as a meeting with MKs Yariv Levin and Zeev Elkin in which he clarified whether the law restricting Israel today during elections.
In this situation, although Adelson's testimony could have been used by the State Attorney's Office to strengthen the case against Netanyahu, it is not necessary to prove the offenses attributed to him.
The Tax and Economics Prosecutor's Office has in recent months considered summoning Adelson to collect early evidence, due to his health condition, but ultimately decided that in light of the fact that his testimony is not critical, it was decided that there was no justification for the exceptional proceeding.
Relationships too close
While the relationship between Netanyahu and Yedioth Ahronoth is at the heart of the 2000 case, in the past there have been allegations regarding the relationship between him and "Israel Today," which his critics called "Bibiton."
In the 2015 elections, Adv. Shachar Ben Meir asked the Central Election Commission to determine that the distribution of Israeli newspapers today constitutes prohibited election propaganda in favor of Netanyahu. The
request was initially rejected by the then chairman of the Central Election Commission, Justice Salim Jubran.
Then he turned to the Supreme Court - But At a Ben Meir agreed to delete the petition on the recommendation refs.
In 2017 conducted a covert police investigation on suspicion of a sympathetic attitude toward Israel's Netanyahu today amount to bribery, fraud and breach of trust. As part of the investigation police conducted wiretapping the phone of Nathan Eshel - an associate of the prime minister who was allegedly the liaison between him and Adelson.
"Phones with guidelines regarding publications."
Natan Eshel (Photo: Haaretz, Olivia Fitoussi / Haaretz)
Eshel was Israel's vice president at the beginning of his career, until he was appointed head of the Prime Minister's Office in 2009. He was suspected of sexual harassment in 2012, and finally under disciplinary law it was agreed that he would no longer work in the civil service. Eshel continued to be close to the Netanyahu family. represented the Likud some coalition negotiations since.
in the application, the order wiretapping, in March 2017, noted the police that intelligence increases Eshel and Shaya Segal, a publicist who has worked with the Netanyahu family and has since died, are in contact with an Israeli today to coordinate the articles to be published in.
the report added that according to the information, "editor in Israel today Amos Regev was getting phones on a regular basis before impairment paper to someone who knows Netanyahu's which would receive guidance on publications." finally, it was noted the request that Eshel was getting regular amounts Money from Sheldon Adelson, intended to finance the Netanyahu family's expenses. The investigation did not mature into an indictment.
"Phones on a regular basis before the paper goes into print."
Former Israel Today editor, Amos Regev (Photo: Reuven Castro)
The Prime Minister's Office recently reported the details of the talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israel Today editor Amos Regev, between the years 2017-2015.
This follows a legal battle waged by Adv. Shachar Ben Meir and News 13 journalist Raviv Drucker for about three years. The
information provided shows that for two years (talks stopped in early January 2017, immediately after Netanyahu was first questioned in the 1000 case), the prime minister and the newspaper's editor held 130 phone calls. The main sabra was ahead of the 2015 election. In the same month, the two spoke 18 times, 14 of them before the election.
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