It seems that state witness Nir Hefetz is slowly, unintentionally, becoming a key defense witness.
Time and time again, he supports the line of defense with substantive arguments, and sometimes it even sounds as if Netanyahu is actually speaking from his throat.
Defense attorneys could not have asked for a better prosecution witness from him.
Nir Hefetz is the most important witness in the lawsuit.
He was a soda man of the Netanyahu family, and through him the prosecution hoped to show on the part of the former prime minister a bribe awareness of give and take, which would decide the bribery clause in the 4000 case;
Give through the regulation that Netanyahu gave, and take through the positive coverage claimed on the Walla website.
An object is also tied to all the bags.
If salvation and the other witnesses could talk about the outcome, an object could have linked the motive.
Although Hefetz responded and repeated the words of previous witnesses, according to which Netanyahu interfered in the media coverage, and was even obsessed with the issue of the media in general, he essentially supports the line of defense. The highlight was yesterday, when he said from the witness stand that "presenting media coverage as bribery is on the verge of hallucination. I spend a lot of time in the media, and such relationships are a matter of routine. This investigation is an agenda of law enforcement and media. I thought then and today." , And even added that "the 4000 case would not have come into being if Netanyahu had not been prime minister," to the astonishment of those sitting in the hall.
Defendant does not say these things, but to the most important prosecution witness in Netanyahu's cases.
He actually states emphatically that there was nothing unusual in Netanyahu's intervention, and grins at the indictment filed in this matter.
And if that's not enough, he reiterates: "Netanyahu never asked me to send a regulatory message to Man Dhao - Nada," and also says that he was warned not to reach illegal districts in negotiations with Arnon (Noni) Mozes regarding the 2000 case.
Nir Hefetz has so far been portrayed as a much more credible witness than salvation.
True, he has severe memory problems and sometimes he contradicts himself in what he said in the courtroom compared to the interrogation, and vice versa.
Some of the things he said very much will not please Netanyahu, but this actually increases his credibility.
It is clear that he is trying to express the events in a sincere and real way and with quite a bit of emotion, due to the abuse he went through in the police investigations.
In the past I have been careful not to set rivets about the direction of the trial that is still going on and of course things can still change, but towards the end of the prosecution's cross-examination of the prosecution, if that's all the prosecution could produce, it can be said cautiously - not as she shouted.
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