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Michal Klein testified in the 4000 case about the influence of Netanyahu and the former CEO Yeshua's interventions to skew the coverage in Walla !. , In various editorial roles
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Yael Friedson
Tuesday, 19 October 2021, 16:25 Updated: 16:26
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In the video: Michal Klein in the District Court in preparation for her testimony in the 4000 case (Walla system!)
The cross-examination of Michal Klein, head of the Walla! News system, began this morning (Tuesday) in the Jerusalem District Court. Between 2016-2018, as part of the 4000 case. Klein testified yesterday about the political interventions of the site's former CEO Ilan Yeshua, and today she was questioned by the defendants' defense attorneys, including Adv. Boaz Ben Tzur, who represents former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Klein, 33, worked at Walla! For a decade, from 2008 to the end of 2018, first as a producer at the news desk and then in a variety of different editorial positions - with the latter being head of the news system and deputy editor-in-chief in 2018-2016.
The testimony of Aviram Elad, former editor-in-chief of the Walla! Website, ended yesterday in the Jerusalem District Court.
In the years 2018-2016 as part of the 4000 case. The testimony of the first witness, former CEO of Walla! Ilan Yeshua, stretched over 33 hearings over six months. The site in the years he ran it.
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"Most of the time I believed in salvation."
Klein (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel)
Attorney Boaz Ben-Tzur, who represents the former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Klein to questions on election coverage in 2013. Klein was on maternity leave most of the election period, except for a short break in the reinforcement of the news desk.
Klein said that a site is not believed that knowledge complimented the Likud, the poverty report published in December 2012, the site was minimized due to objective considerations and not because of the intervention in favor of Netanyahu.
Ben Tzur:
Do you know the prosecution contends elections, in 2013 and -2015 were record interventions?
Klein:
I make a distinction between what I knew So and between what I know now.I know what I was exposed to, the demands I received from Ilan Yeshua.When I was called to the Securities Authority in 2018 I was a month postpartum, and my memory today is better than when I sat for ten hours in the Securities Authority.
Ben Tzur (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
Ben Tzur:
Congratulations to me, the man who was in central contact with you was Ilan Yeshua, and Mr. Yeshua often exaggerated, inflating and manipulating.
Klein:
I do not know when Ilan told the whole truth, most of the time I believed him.
Ben Tzur: As far as
you are concerned, you do not know what was between an object and salvation.
Klein:
I only know what Ilan Yeshua's instructions are, I do not know what Nir Hefetz says to Ilan Yeshua.
Ben-Zur went on to discuss Klein's investigation into the Securities Authority. "At the end of the day of the outbreak (the day of the transition from covert investigation to postcard, YF) I receive a phone call from the Securities Authority. I am asked to report at ten in the morning and I report."
Ben-Zur quoted Klein's interrogation as saying that "following the publication of the interrogation we sat in the system and came to the conclusion that it was not us" and Klein clarified it "this is not what I said. When we watched the broadcast of the 2000 affair we realized it was not us".
Ben-Zur sought to understand things and Klein expanded: "I do not remember exactly who I spoke to then, I spoke to someone who told me it was not, until I saw that the connection between Netanyahu and Mozes was published, I had a suspicion that it was Walla."
Ben-Zur:
Did you not think that it was difficult to find out whether there was a pending investigation or not?
Klein:
No, I did not think for a moment that I would be a suspect
Head of the Walla!
Aviram Elad (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
Ben-Zur questioned Klein about an item she published in 2013, about the president's visit to Ammon Peres in Mexico, and Klein said it was a routine news item. He asked her if there were any unusual incidents on the trip, and Klein replied no. Ben-Zur asked Klein why she did not report Peres feeling unwell, and she replied that when the delegation landed in Mexico, Peres had altitude sickness but he was interviewed by the media about the death of singer Arik Einstein so she did not attach importance to it.
Ben-Zur presented an article in the bronze section of "Mako", Who Against Who, which criticized the fact that the trip to Mexico was funded by the event organizers in Mexico, and not by the media, and asked Klein questions about sponsored press trips and ethical issues that arise from it. Klein dismissed the claim, saying "it turned out that Walla's journalists went on sponsored trips and wrote unfavorable articles."
Ben-Zur asked Klein about a quote from journalist Barak Ravid, then the Haaretz political correspondent, who criticized his colleagues who reported Peres' altitude sickness in an article, and subsequently canceled his visit to Carlos Salim, the richest man in Mexico, and linked this to the fact that most journalists Traveled to Mexico at the expense of the President's House.
"It's at the end of a journalist who goes to a poll for a politician, and the person who arranged it for him is the politician," Ravid told Kol Yisrael at the time.
Ben-Zur presented a message from Zeev Rubinstein, who sent Ravid the quote of salvation and asked that Walla!
Will address the issue, and asked Klein in court: Let's put things on the table, is there a difference between a politician and a president?
Klein: There is a difference between how a president is surveyed and how a politician is surveyed.
There is a context, what the visit is about, there are many variables.
I do not know if it was Netanyahu or Avigdor Lieberman.
Klein (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel)
Ben-Zur presented a series of tweets by Klein, mainly "retweets," against Netanyahu, and asked her to find out what was behind them, why she did not retweet Netanyahu's tweets and what her political views were.
Klein:
My opinions are mine.
Ben Tzur:
It's okay, there's no regret about it.
Judge Moshe Bar-Am interrupted Ben-Zur: Why is it important to my lord if she identified herself, the witness wants to keep her opinions to herself, and that's fine.
Ben-Zur:
This is related to the personal hostility that was in the system to Netanyahu and perhaps personal hostility.
Klein stressed "I perceive myself as a professional advisor, regardless of political opinions, like a lawyer."
Ben-Zur went on to investigate Klein regarding articles and events that appeared in the appendix to the indictment, regarding which the prosecution claims that there were interventions by Netanyahu and his representatives in biasing coverage in Walla !, including the poverty report in 2013. Ben-Zur confronted Klein with Yeshua's testimony. Was associated with Likud advertising budgets in the election campaign.
Klein:
(Salvation) did not tell me directly, this is the message we received. It is said that the Likud invests a lot of money in awareness.
Ben-Zur:
Salvation did not hesitate to intervene in commercial matters.
Klein:
He was interested.
Ben Tzur:
He had an ideology, he was standing here on the conference stand.
Ben-Zur examined with Klein the conduct of the system around other incidents in the indictment, such as the State Comptroller's report on the Bibitors case, Sarah Netanyahu's visit to the state fire station and an appeal to the National Labor Court against the ruling in favor of Mani Naftali. Ben-Zur sought to show that more media outlets covered these events, and Hefetz's references and other requests for salvation were routine inquiries that were part of the spokespersons' work.
"Speakers and PR people send you materials and they make requests, they have an interest in presenting their angle, right?" Ben-Zur asked.
Ben-Zur presented a request for an object from Ilan Yeshua, to insert a paragraph in the article on the state's appeal in the Mani Naftali case, and asked Klein, do you know that the paragraph that Hefetz asked Yeshua to insert appeared in other media? Klein replied no.
Judge Bar-Am McClain clarified what was unusual in the request and she replied: "The day before Yeshua's announcements, a message is published that the court has written and receives the place it deserves. This news comes down a day later, and at 11:00 in the morning I receive a message from Ilan to upload "I explain that the news came up at night. He demanded of me the day after the publication of an article, to return it to the home page, which is not customary, and to leave it on the home page for a few hours, which is unusual."
Salvation (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel)
What is Netanyahu accused of?
In the 1000 case
(the benefit benefits case), Netanyahu is accused of receiving benefits worth about NIS 700,000 from businessmen Arnon Milchen and James Packer, while he served as prime minister. The main gifts were cigars, champagne packages and jewelry.
In addition, it was alleged that Netanyahu acted in Milchen's favor in three matters, in which the businessman sought his intervention: he approached US Secretary of State John Kerry to extend the businessman's visa, he approached Finance Minister Yair Lapid to extend the exemption. A tax for returning residents, and he worked to promote a merger of "Keshet" and "Reshet" - ostensibly at Milchen's request. According to the lawsuit, these acts damaged the image of the public service and the public's trust in it. In this case, Netanyahu is accused of fraud and breach of trust.
File 2000
(Netanyahu-Mozes affair) deals with talks between Netanyahu and Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon (Noni) Mozes. Mozes, publisher of the Yedioth Ahronoth group and the newspaper's editor-in-chief is accused of bribery. In those talks, the two allegedly discussed the benefit of the prime minister's coverage in the Yedioth group, in exchange for imposing restrictions on the newspaper's main competitor - "Israel Today." The prosecution is convinced that the person who offered the deal is Moses, so he is accused of bribery. On the other hand, the Attorney General also convinced that Netanyahu did not intend to complete the transaction bribes, but continued talks with Moses to improve coverage in the news, and there specific actions for this purpose. In this case, Netanyahu charged with fraud and breach of trust.
Bag 4000
(Bezeq-Walla affair) The most serious case for the prime minister concerns regulatory benefits worth hundreds of millions of shekels, which Netanyahu allegedly granted to Shaul Elowitz, the controlling shareholder in the Eurocom Group, through which he controlled several public companies, including the Bezeq Group and the Walla !.
Elovich and his wife Iris Elovich are accused of bribing and obstructing legal proceedings in return.
According to the indictment, Elovich acted to skew the coverage on the Walla !.
In this case, Netanyahu is accused of taking bribes.
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