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File 4000: Amit Eshel, former head of the news desk at Walla !, stamps the testimonies of the site's employees

In the Jerusalem District Court, the hearings in the case continue, after in the last two weeks Aviram Elad, the site's editor-in-chief in 2018-2016, and Michal Klein, head of the news system in those years, testified. Netanyahu and his family

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Yael Friedson

Monday, 25 October 2021, 09:30 Updated: 09:42

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The testimony of Amit Eshel, former head of a desk at the Walla !. website, began this morning (Monday) in the Jerusalem District Court. Eshel has been working at the site since 2015. Her testimony will sign the sequence of testimonies of Walla! As part of the trial.

The prosecution's representative, Adv. Nitzan Vulkan from the State Attorney's Office for Taxation and Economics, asked Eshel to describe the work procedures on the site, how information reaches the system and how to upload it to the site. "

According to her, when she was appointed head of the desk in 2015, Avner Borchov, deputy head of the news system, instructed her to pass on political news for the approval of Avi Alkalay, the site's editor-in-chief.

"It was an oral conversation, not something regulated or written. I was surprised that it was at this level, I was surprised that it was my father, I do not have a daily work interface with him. ".

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"There were issues that went through a filter."

Eshel (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

"I knew before that there were things that could not be smoothly reviewed," she said.

I was surprised to hear that it is so regulated, but it comes after a period when there is a filter on certain items. "

" I do not know through whom they went, my prism is a narrow prism, I realized that there are sensitive issues concerning the Netanyahu family.

Should monitor more intensely on their report, it is impossible to report freely, it goes through a cycle of people out of the new system. "

Earlier you said that Mdin.i where you jumped to another subject of the Netanyahu family?

" Were the items that we could not cover, or we would have to wait " .

The testimony lasted about six months.

Former Walla! Ilan Yeshua CEO (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

Eshel's testimony will sign the first chapter of Walla!'S content people, who described the pressures and interventions of former CEO Ilan Yeshua in favor of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is accused of accepting bribes from the site's owners, Shaul and Iris Elowitz.

Yeshua's testimony lasted nearly six months , A relatively long period of time for one witness, during which he described how the Elowitz couple instructed him to skew the coverage in Netanyahu's favor. Avigdor Lieberman and former Labor Party chairman Avi Gabay, in which Yeshua complimented politicians and intervened several times in the content of the articles in their favor. In doing so, the defense is trying to show that there was no sympathetic coverage on the site for Netanyahu.

In the last two weeks, Aviram Elad, the site's editor-in-chief between 2018-2016, and Michal Klein, head of the news system in those years, testified.

The two testified that Yeshua's interventions in the content of the site for the benefit of Netanyahu and his family were exceptional, and how they tried to fight them.

After Eshel's testimony, former Director General of the Ministry of Communications, Avi Berger, will testify. , Felix Cohen, Eurocom's CFO, followed by State Witness Nir Hefetz, the Netanyahu family's communications adviser.

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