In the courtyard of the Netanyahu trial, swords were sharpened, but a look out of the courtroom also reveals a human face - Walla! news

2021-04-09T18:49:43.391Z

Between the difficulty of salvation with the status of the testimony and the venomous remarks exchanged by the parties, there are also welcome pauses in the trial that break the tension between the actors in the play. Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, after 70 years, the Givat Amal B saga - a disgraceful failure of the state - was signed with a symbolic recognition of injustice and hope for healing the wounds

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Swords were polished in the courtyard of the Netanyahu trial, but a look out of the courtroom also reveals a human face

Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, after 70 years, the Givat Amal B saga - a disgraceful failure of the state - was signed with a symbolic recognition of injustice and hope for healing the wounds

Elovich wrote to Yeshua: I explained to Netanyahu that the news was removed, he said 'good' and moved to Iran

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For hours he began to describe how the site became a plaything.

Salvation (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel)

In the hall itself one could see how easy the class was for salvation.

Testify for hours how a key screw in the relationship known today as the 4000 case. He is not proud of the things he did then, and of the things he forced his subordinates to do.

One could also see the Elowitz couple, at the back of the hall, writing notes on the testimony of salvation in yellow notebooks, and having a hard time staying focused towards the end of the long day of hearings.

In front of the hall the atmosphere is different.

Even after eight hours of testimony, prosecutor Yehudit Tirosh Gross continues to sharpen swords with Netanyahu's defense team and the Elowitz couple - attorneys Boaz Ben Tzur, Jacques Chen and Michal Rosen Ozer.

Salvation's testimony is sometimes interrupted for long minutes to discuss defense attorneys' opposition to the plaintiff's question or the use of certain evidence.

Netanyahu at the entrance to the courtroom (Photo: Official website, Oren Ben Hakon)

True to the Code of Legal Conduct, lawyers on both sides try to call each other "friends."

Perhaps apart from Adv. Chen, the prosecutor's office itself, which often calls the plaintiff by its first name: Judith, above all. But even the friendly nickname, or the nickname "friend", can not hide the sparks when the parties are careful to throw venomous remarks, and blame each other for conduct not good.

"perhaps that enough with kindergarten," the plaintiff fired at Mr. Ben Create one-day meeting, and he replied sarcastically: "the kindergarten that will probably come to the university."

The one who is still trying to bring order to the court is the trio of judges, and especially the head of the panel, Rivka Friedman-Feldman.

Judges are alert, and occasionally ask about the meaning of one term or another.

Thus, on Wednesday, Yeshua told how he reported to Elovich that a certain article "came up for tasting."

In the internal slang of the site, tastings are the news items that are on the home page, just below the main headline.

To make sure the explanation was understood, the parties asked the judges to open the Walla !.

The tension broke for a moment and turned into laughter when Salvation pointed to the knowledge that was in the taste at that moment - and discovered that he was pointing to the knowledge that dealt with his testimony.

Attorney Jacques Chen at the entrance to the court (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel / Flash 90)

Most of the judges' questions seem to deal with the objections raised by the defense, and especially the claim that Salvation refers in his testimony at the podium to things he was not asked about in his police investigations.

The basic rule in criminal law is that a prosecution must not surprise the defense with unfamiliar evidence.

This is also the reason why a variety of investigative materials are transferred to the defense upon filing the indictment, so that it can be properly prepared.

The prosecution, on the other hand, claims that these are examples mentioned in the investigation materials, even if salvation is not explicitly asked about them, and that his answers regarding those specific events are entirely consistent with the general pattern of site corruption he spoke at length in his investigations.

Among the judges, Moshe Bar-Am seems to be the most attentive to the defense attorneys' claim, and he even wondered if there was no place to complete a police investigation.

Meanwhile, the judges ruled that even if not all the incidents were explicitly mentioned by Yeshua in his interrogations and the refresher talk held for him in the prosecution prior to his testimony, at least so far no gap has been discovered that materially harmed the defendants' defense.

They contented themselves with instructing the prosecution to focus on the events as they came up with investigations and a refresher.

At least by the hour.

In between, there are also welcome breaks.

It could be a smiling conversation on the steps of the courthouse, attended by prosecutors, defense attorneys and journalists, when suddenly everyone falls silent at once and notices four planes passing over a nearby Justice Department building, training for the Independence Day flight.

And it can be a simple homemade sandwich, wrapped in a napkin, pulled out during the lunch break in the hall and reminding that all the actors in this show - the good and the bad, each and every one how he chooses to share them - are all human.

Indictment against the state

Outside the courtroom in Jerusalem, life itself continued this week, to quote Defendant 1.

And in this life, a ruling was given in the Tel Aviv District Court that seals the saga of the Givat Amal B. neighborhood.

A saga that is all a disgraceful failure of the country, lasting decades.

The neighborhood is located on the border of Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan, on the northern side of the Halacha Bridge.

It was originally called Jammusin, because of the jams that would roam the wild stream that passed behind it - the Ayalon.

During the War of Independence, the Arab residents of the neighborhood were evacuated or fled, and their homes housed Jews who were evacuated or fled on their own from the mortars fired from Jaffa toward Tel Aviv.

The residents were poor and hard-working, and in 1949 Ben-Gurion promised to provide them with alternative housing, and ordered not to demolish or evacuate any of the barracks but as part of an agreement to be reached with the residents.

But the agreement was not reached.

In 1961, the state sold the land to a private entrepreneur, who as part of the agreement for the development of the area undertook to provide the residents of the neighborhood with "equivalent housing" (equivalent).

But promises aside, agreements aside, and reality aside.

Givat Amal evacuation in 2014 (Photo: Dror Einav)

The wild stream and its green banks became Ayalon lanes, and the residents of Givat Amal B. saw the nearby neighborhoods - which were also composed of transit huts - become a luxury neighborhood.

Here, Givat Amal A. became Akirov Towers, and next to it, Hugh Towers and Tzameret Park were erected.

Only Givat Amal II remains beyond, deep into the second decade of the 21st century.

Small houses without an address, without sewage infrastructure, with roads that the residents paved themselves.

The state, for its part, and especially the Tel Aviv municipality, has completely neglected the place, hoping that the harsh conditions will cause the residents to leave.

This has not happened, and as is the case with problems that have been ignored for decades, the situation has worsened.

On the one hand, land and real estate acquaintances have stepped up, and increased the incentive to develop the neighborhood. On the other hand, on the original plots of the residents have already sat generations of their descendants, demanding that the state keep its original promise verbally, and provide them, as locals, equal alternative housing value.

in recent years, land owners present, mainly company "Elad Israel Residences" by Yitzhak Tshuva, evacuate residents from their homes. after the courts rejected most of the claims of the Givat Amal. was clearly made them an injustice for many years, but the law does not He knew how to fix it, and the courts had to define them - as the state and the developers claim - as invaders in their own homes. MKs on the right and left, like Ayelet Shaked and Ilan Gilon, tried to solve the problem and promote laws that could do justice to the neighborhood and its residents.

Evacuation of Givat Amal residents in 2014 (Photo: Yotam Ronen)

Over the years, some residents have signed eviction agreements with the developers.

In 2016, the residents filed a class action lawsuit against the state, while at the same time the developers' eviction lawsuits were filed against some of the residents who still remained in the area.

In June 2018, Judge Mario Klein ordered the eviction of residents in exchange for monetary compensation, which was later increased in the district court.

As a result, the residents filed a motion to dismiss the class action.

This week, Judge Michal Agmon Gonen accepted the residents' request, and in fact ended the story of the transit camp in the shadow of the towers.

She did so in a reasoned 66-page judgment, which is entirely an indictment against the State of Israel.

"The story of Givat Amal is perhaps the essence of law and poverty, the encounter between people living in poverty and the authorities, in an attempt to assert their rights," Judge Agmon Gonen wrote.

"People who could not get to the right places did not have the right connections. People living in poverty who simply did not listen to them, even though they tried and turned and asked for over 70 years."

The ruling extensively reviews the neighborhood's experiences, concluding that "this is a historical injustice, the residents have constantly worked tirelessly, in an attempt to get the state to keep its promise to them. A promise given in 1949, final fulfilled only in 2020, with the ruling of The Supreme Court (which rejected a request for a further appeal against the compensation determined in the Tel Aviv District Court) ".

"After concluding, I will add: I hope that acknowledging the injustice done to the residents of Givat Amal for decades will alleviate their pain in some way. I hope that acknowledging that they, their parents, and their grandparents were right all along, when they repeated that they arrived "Promises they received, and were not fulfilled, were given by law and not by grace, you will heal the wounds with something, and that this will be the compensation in filing this lawsuit."

Amen.

This is a farewell column

After all, this is an administrative announcement: This is the last column of this section.

For the past few months I have been trying every week to give a different angle here on the major legal events of the past week, and sometimes rather to focus on non-major events: important stories of people who got caught up in the justice system, and did not get media attention.

On this occasion, the HM wishes to say to the readers of this section one concluding word - thank you. Thank you for commenting, taking an interest, making suggestions, and especially for reading and listening. We will meet again.

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