The third day of the evidentiary phase of the Prime Minister's trial • The former Walla CEO has appeared in the Jerusalem District Court, giving his testimony as part of the Bezeq-Walla affair • Ongoing updates
Ilan Yeshua in court, this morning
Photo:
Oren Ben Hakon
The third hearing in the trial stage of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began this morning (Wednesday) in the Jerusalem District Court, during which the key testimony of former Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua will be renewed as part of the Bezeq-Walla case (File 4000). In receiving bribes of positive coverage on the Walla website in exchange for regulatory benefits, which he granted to Cohen as Prime Minister and Minister of Communications.
Testimony of Ilan Yeshua - Ongoing updates
9:32 a.m .:
Prosecutor Yehudit Tirosh heard Yeshua record a conversation he had with former Bezeq CEO Stella Handler, in which Yeshua was heard saying: "I and Shaul will have a police investigation.
The role of the press in criticizing the government and the public system needs to understand this.
There is no half press, it is impossible to intervene here.
Can take that Noni's interrogation will be somewhere else, we will regret all the nonsense we do.
On days like this one has to understand the consequences, we are in a very dangerous place.
OK?
Do you understand that? "
9:27:
Salvation addressed the issue of biased coverage: "I do not remember that they sought to do good with anyone from the right. They usually sought to attack other people from the right."
9:15:
The hearing began in the Jerusalem District Court.
Yesterday, the second hearing took place at the evidentiary stage, and at the beginning, the prosecutor, Adv. Yehudit Tirosh-Gross, informed the judges that Yeshua gave the prosecution messages he received after his first testimony, including threatening messages. "We passed the matter on to the police," she said.
The defense attorneys for Netanyahu and the couple Shaul and Iris Alovich claimed that Yeshua's testimony differed in significant parts from what he said in his investigations with the police.
According to Boaz Ben-Zur, Netanyahu's lawyer, the source of the gap is an improper "refresh" that the State Attorney's Office conducted for salvation.
PM Netanyahu at the evidentiary hearing in the court in Jerusalem, yesterday // Photo: Reuters, Yoni Rickner
