Today in the Jerusalem District Court: Continued testimony of Nir Hefetz | Israel Today

The testimony of Nir Hefetz, a state witness in the 4000 case, will continue today (Tuesday) in the Jerusalem District Court.

The prosecution will continue the investigation of the object through Adv. Amir Tabenkin, who serves as deputy director of the securities department at the Tax and Economics Prosecutor's Office.

Last night, Hefetz's "key testimony" opened - and even before it began, the prosecution was forced to amend a wording in the witness memo that was first forwarded to the defense. To the things he said in his initial testimony.

Netanyahu in court, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

In the courtroom itself in the Jerusalem District Court, present, among others, the defendant, the leader of the opposition, Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Nir Hefetz, a state witness against him and his former associate.

Hefetz is the most important prosecution witness in all of Netanyahu's cases, since he was a secret man of his family, and can reveal the internal dynamics that led to the various moves and decisions.

The prosecution hopes to show through it that Netanyahu was aware of the jackal's relationship and took with Bezeq's controlling shareholders, Shaul Alovich - and was even a partner in their formation.

In doing so, the prosecution will try to prove "bribery awareness" that will justify the bribery charge.

Regarding the importance that Netanyahu gave to the media, he said: "The scope of his involvement in media affairs is enormous. If you measure it in time, it is at least like security issues, which is the second most important issue that concerns him. This is a huge chunk of his time."

On another meeting between him and Elovich, he said that "there was a claim that the (then) Minister of Communications Gilad Ardan and the director general of his office, Avi Berger, blackmailed him, in his words, by conditioning the approval of the Yes deal by reaching The Yes Bezeq transaction made large investments in infrastructure.

Another argument was that the non-approval of the Yes transaction would harm Bezeq's ability to invest in infrastructure in the future. "