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Case 4000 is far from collapsing. In illustrating the decay, the defense only proved how exceptional it is - Walla! news

2021-05-30T18:25:53.601Z


Defense attorneys at the Alps trial have cited a variety of examples of interfering with journalistic content, but it is not certain that it will benefit them. True, many sections of the media have established unethical to corrupt norms - but the proof that capital-government-newspaper relations in Israel are rotten only clarifies on what ground an event like never before has arisen.


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Case 4000 is far from collapsing.

In illustrating the decay, the defense only proved how exceptional it is

Defense attorneys at the Alps trial have cited a variety of examples of interfering with journalistic content, but it is not certain that it will benefit them.

True, many sections of the media have established unethical to corrupt norms - but the proof that capital-government-newspaper relations in Israel are rotten only clarifies on what ground an event like never before has arisen.

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  • File 4000

  • The Netanyahu trial

  • Tree of salvation

  • Benjamin Netanyahu

  • Shaul Alovich

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In the video: Ilan Yeshua and Shaul Alovich in the District Court (Photo: Roni Knafo)

This buzz has been playing pretty much the last few days. I was asked several times this week whether there really is a "4000 course case", as some media people and top tweets claim in light of what is happening in the cross-examination of the first witness in the Netanyahu trial, Ilan Yeshua.



This refers mainly to the concluding stages, which were conducted by the attorneys of Shaul and Iris Elowitz, Adv. Jacques Chen and Adv. Michal Rosen-Ozer, and to the strong opening of the cross-examination currently being conducted by Netanyahu's attorney, Adv. Well, it's time to drink a glass of cold water and relax. Ben Tzur, Chen and Rosen-Ozer, as expected, are doing an impressive job in court, but the case is still very far from collapsing, as it is still very far from proving guilt.



The media buzz began with the exposure of Ilan Yeshua's text messages with Yitzhak Herzog from his rival period over the leadership of the Labor Party with Shelly Yachimovich. The messages reached the defense team not in the king's way, but as a result of the prosecution's mistake. Chen and Rosen-Ozer rightly expressed resentment over this. Judge Moshe Bar-Am was amazed at how these correspondences between Yeshua and Herzog could have been classified as "irrelevant" (a classification that does not require the transfer of material to the claim).



This is the place to mention that there is almost no mega-case in which the State Attorney's Office does not fall into the incorrect classification of conversations and correspondence, and the non-transfer of full material for defense. These mistakes, and especially the unnecessary wars with the protection of investigative materials, cause the prosecution a great deal of damage, and zero benefit. The fact that there has not yet been a sweeping radical reform in this area, which would produce control over the full transfer of investigative materials to defense attorneys from the prosecution, is a scandal that requires correction. Next Minister of Justice, please take immediate action.

Not a media man, and certainly not a journalist. Salvation in court, Wednesday (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel)

And having said that, let's talk to the body of things. In the same correspondence that followed Herzog's interview with Yonit Levy on News 12, Yeshua writes to Herzog: "Yonit Levy was terrible, unbearable, you were ten. Help me." What do Netanyahu's lawyers want to prove? it's clear. Here is Salvation, who recounted how interventions were imposed on him in favor of Netanyahu, doing things on his own initiative, without any discount, offering to voluntarily cover coverage for a politician he wished to have visited.



The conversation becomes practical, with Herzog asking: "I would love for the title to be 'An overwhelming victory for Herzog, despite the attacks against him. I must show control and exclusion of the bitch' (referring to Yachimovich)", and Yeshua replies: "Okay, patient, I'm in Hawaii, but I'm sighing. Avi (Alkalay, then editor of Walla!) ", And Herzog replies:" What fun! Please give guidance to my father. " Salvation promises: "In therapy. Send me more material and we will prepare a great item on the victory and on the whole mask of her attempts to stumble."



Yesterday, similar conversations of Yeshua were presented with editors, instructing them to give positive coverage to Avigdor Lieberman, to prevent negative publicity about Dalia Itzik, to prevent negative publicity on Channel 10 (at the request of his friend, then-CEO Yossi Warszewski). Because Salvation was not, to say the least, a CEO of the breed that does not interfere in journalistic content, they did so with great success.

If they want to prove later in the cross-examination of the media culture of those years, and probably even today, with quite a few media outlets the intervention of executives and shareholders in journalistic content is a matter of routine, here I am already predicting for you: they will do so even more successfully.

The intensity of his case was unmatched by any other politician.

Netanyahu (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The interesting question is: to whom will this proof ultimately help? Unlike Netanyahu and Elowitz's attorneys, I am completely unsure of the answer. Netanyahu's lawyers will argue that proving this norm dramatically removes the possibility that Netanyahu's mental element existed for bribery with Elovich. If this is what always happens, the lawyers will argue, and in any case there is no recording or iron proof that the two have linked bribes, then what case is there?



And one can look at the completely opposite matter: True, in many sections of the Israeli media, unethical norms have been established over the years at best, and corrupt at worst. Commercial executives and publishers frequently interfere with content, sometimes for real business reasons, sometimes on a member basis. Behaves as such).



Salvation is not a media man and certainly not a journalist.

There is ample evidence that over the years journalistic values ​​have been far less important to him, to say the least, than commercial interests.

He himself admits it today.

Like Yeshua, there are many functionaries in the Israeli media who are not really interested in journalistic values.

And here's the point: on this land, fertilized with interests, corrupt wild shrubs grow, as they grew on the Walla !.

A rotten piece of land was there, for Salvation's interest in journalistic values ​​was still immeasurably greater than the interest of its owner at the time, Saul Alovich, who even seemingly was not interested.

All that interested Elovich was making big money in a flash.

An event that was unparalleled in the Israeli media

When there is a publisher hungry for hundreds of millions, when there is a shrewd CEO beneath him whose shaky connection to the press certainly does not threaten business, when at the same time ties are forged with the prime minister, and when the classic publisher, Nir Hefetz stands in the middle, this is an opportunity for a wild plant in this rotten soil.

This is the opportunity, after all the investment in corruption, to carry out an exit of corruption, for example in the form of the Bezeq-Yes deal, which was worth hundreds of millions in cash to Elowitz.



In other words: Yaffa, defense attorneys, who have proven that salvation, like many in the Israeli media, has tilted coverage for the benefit of stakeholders regardless of Netanyahu.

But in practice you also established what the prosecution wants to prove: that the land is rotten it is clear, as it is rotten in the culture of the local authorities, as it is rotten in the field of tenders.

We know that.

The question is which of those who settle in this rotten earth, also crosses the criminal continuum and is mostly caught in its depravity.

Exit of corruption.

Elowitz (Photo: Flash 90, Olivier Fitoussi)

This is exactly where the special case of the Walla !. Its distinction from other events flooded by defense attorneys in court will be reflected in two parameters that must be cumulative: intensity and value. Let's start with the intensity. In the coming weeks, Netanyahu's lawyers will try to prove by signs and examples that the Walla! He was not biased in favor of Netanyahu at all. They will come with neat tables of items, and show the court that the Walla! He acted against Netanyahu in general, so the attempt to differentiate him from the rest of the media in this matter must fail.



I have written here many times that the 4000 case is a complex case, and in my opinion its chances of conviction are around 50%, and yet, it is important for me to say that counting the positive versus negative news is a sham at its best, no less.

With all due respect to Ben Tzur's team, a Google search for positive versus negative news has no meaning.

why?

Take, for example, the day of the hearings on Wednesday: During the hearing, I giggled at the news in question about Dalia Itzik that Yeshua wanted to hide.

I found it easily, but anyone who would open the site in real time would not find it, simply because they did not know it existed.

More on Walla!

Salvation: Netanyahu had a huge interest in who would be elected president.

There are candidates whom the king wished to visit

To the full article

Negative news about Netanyahu deteriorated on a daily basis to the slopes of the site, disappeared from the "homepage", changed headlines, etc.

Therefore, there is no meaning to the count, since only in the rarer cases are the articles completely censored.

All these years reporters and editors have felt professionally oppressed, and they will testify to that in court.

Is there an argument about that?

Beyond the fact that I conducted a comprehensive investigation, I myself, in real time, received from frustrated colleagues excellent journalistic stories, which were banned from publication on the site.



The lawyers will try to prove that the journalists and editors of the site were anti-Bibi journalists.

Rather, it only plays in favor of the prosecution, as it explains the intensity of the repression.

If at the end of this trial, the judges will not understand that the event is in Walla!

It is an event that was unparalleled in the Israeli media, it will be a crushing failure of the prosecution, since every decent journalist in Israel knows that this is what happened there.

Who will this proof ultimately help?

Adv. Ben Tzur in court, Wednesday (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

And no, the intensity in Netanyahu's case was not even slightly similar to intervening in Walla! For no other politician. It is the other cases that illustrate the rotten platform, the one that in practice allowed the site to be enslaved, a real enslavement, to the mutual interests of the Prime Minister and Elovich.



But, it is important to emphasize: proof of intensity, and proof of mass, is not enough. The return must also be proven. True, legally-formally, the consideration component is not necessary for the purpose of proving bribery. But in practice, this element is necessary, certainly in this exceptional case. Unlike the ease with which one can prove the oppression of journalists in Walla! Pilber, two state witnesses.



In conclusion, the rejoicing over the embarrassment that the defense attorneys seem to be saving is premature.

In this case, many difficulties are still expected to be prosecuted, but precisely the proof that the capital-government-newspaper relationship in the Israeli media is rotten to corrupt only strengthens the illustration of the platform on which the 4000 case grew.

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