Case 4000:
Today (Monday) the cross-examination of former Walla editor Aviram Elad continues.
Iris Elovich's attorney, Adv. Michal Rosen-Ozer, will interrogate the witness around the publication of Ms. Sarah Netanyahu's psychological tape.
Adv. Rosen-Ozer: "Did you know that this is a private conversation and that it will harm the publication?"
Elad: "I was not sure it was a private conversation, it was a conversation with the family's communications consultant. I thought there was value in advertising."
Attorney Rosen-Assistant: "You are not answering what I asked. You are telling investigators who hear the madness there, if that is what you thought, you must have thought it was degrading publicity for her."
Elad: "Obviously she will not be satisfied with that."
Attorney Rosen-Assistant: "Did you have a dilemma here?"
Elad: "There were a set of considerations whether to publish it, we had to examine whether it was real, then whether there was a public interest in it and it was not cheap gossip. At the time there was evidence of such conduct by Sarah Netanyahu. It is also important for the environment in which the prime minister operates. "
Advocate Rosen-Ozer: "You said you had a dilemma, but in your interrogation you said: 'I did not have a dilemma.'"
Elad: "I said mine personally there was no dilemma, there were editors with opinions here or there and I decided."
The lawyer reads a sentence from Elad's interrogation in the context of the tape: "How sweet it was to publish it."
In response, Elad said: "After all the censorship we had, such a tape came and we could publish it, so it was definitely sweet that the censorship was removed."
