Today (Monday) the testimony of Ilan Yeshua ended, and the next witness - Aviram Elad, is expected to begin his testimony phase.
Iris Elowitz's attorney, Adv. Michal Rosen-Ozer, began investigating Yeshua last week, as part of the 4000 case in the trial of former prime minister and opposition chairman Benjamin Netanyahu.
Advocate Rosen-Ozer raised a series of correspondences at a hearing last week, including in the WhatsApp group "Management System Forum" opened by Yeshua, as well as emails with his participation, which show the type of Yeshua interventions on the site. The former Walla CEO tried to claim Different types of intervention, such as how fast "push" came out and why an article came up late and the like.
Adv. Ben-Zur, Netanyahu's lawyer, asked to dismiss the opposition leader from the testimony of the next two witnesses, Aviram Elad and Michal Klein, former Walla editor and former head of the news desk, claiming that the two witnesses were not directly related to Netanyahu, as was the case with Ilan Yeshua.
Ilan Yeshua in court today, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Advocate Yehudit Tirosh from the State Attorney's Office turned to Yeshua and asked: "In last week's hearing, you were presented with emails that Mr. Alkalay sent you regarding the articles for approval, presented you with the statistical test you requested from Mrs. Ad Aluf, which performed the articles on Netanyahu and Mr. Positive and negative? "To which Yeshua replied:" Yes "
Yeshua further testified that "there was no procedure only for Netanyahu. The procedure I set was in light of the fact that in the past there were requests and we got on the head. At one point I set the procedure, and that was after Uri Ariel, Cases where I corrected and sent to Iris. "