Hefetz and Netanyahu's defense attorneys present: A love-hate story

Hefetz testified that the DNA of Walla!

He was very hostile to Netanyahu, but spoiled the defense when he explained that he was disrupted by Elovich and Yeshua. The opposite

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09/12/2021

Thursday, 09 December 2021, 18:00 Updated: 18:01

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Various curious people who entered the courtroom in the Jerusalem District Court this week on different days and at different times could have had a different impression of Nir Hefetz's testimony, up to the state in Benjamin Netanyahu's trial. In most hearings it sounds as if it is aligned with the defense, and there is almost no confrontation between it and the defense attorneys. Only in a small portion of the hearings did the hearing sound like a real cross-examination. What exactly is the meaning of these love-hate games between defense attorneys and an object?

The easy part to explain is the one we discussed last week, which dealt with the means of pressure exerted on an object while he was in custody. Defense attorneys of course have reason to emphasize the point to prove that Hefetz decided to cross the lines due to illegitimate mental pressure, and Hefetz was interested in surrendering to this narrative, because he really felt he was wronged, especially with regard to that associate, and he even stated his intention to sue the state for exercises. The interrogation done to him.

Then came the stage in the cross-examination that was also not really confrontational, but on the other hand was really not good for Netanyahu.

This was when Hefetz declared in the courtroom that Netanyahu was incompetent and even dangerous to the citizens of Israel due to the people whispering in his ear.

He described an "event that could have ended in thousands of deaths," referring to the affair of placing the magnetometers on the Temple Mount in 2017, which, according to Hefetz, was pushed by Yair Netanyahu.

It was not clear during the course of why Ben-Zur himself led in his interrogation the object to this incident, and indeed it seems that after an internal consultation, he and Carmel, his daughter and right-hand man on the team, decided to abandon the direction of the interrogation.

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Defense attorneys have an interest in proving that he acted under illegitimate mental pressure.

Hefetz (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

Besides, on the same day of hearings, Ben-Zur became entangled in another, unsafe and rather childish direction of interrogation, when he projected to Hefetz excerpts from his interrogation in which investigators mention train proverbs in various variations, all under pressure to become a state witness: "The train leaves the station." From the train ", etc. Ben-Zur tried to convince Hefetz and the court that the interrogators 'attempt was to imply that he had dramatic information about an affair from the 1980s, in which he, Hefetz, was interrogated with a warning that during a night of navigating his officers' course he fired a bullet at another cadet navigating that night. And in an attempt to whitewash his killing, he placed the body of his navigating partner on the railway tracks. The case against Hefetz was closed and a polygraph examination revealed a truth-teller regarding his version.

The journalistic investigation was published in News 13 by Ayala Hasson only after the signing of an agreement with the state, so Hefetz responded to Ben-Tzur's unfounded conspiracy theory that: "I always appreciated that the information came from Netanyahu," and Ben-Tzur replied with some confidence: You think so, but I'm telling you that Golan will be expelled, so the CEO of News 10 (now 13, BK), received the information as part of the investigators' attempts to pressure you to sign an agreement until a state. " When asked by Judge Baram where the security was, Ben-Zur replied "personal information." It was not long before Huqfaz tweeted that "Adv. Ben Tzur's words are a complete lie," and later added that the sources of information were neither the police, nor Netanyahu's men. By the way, this is not the first time that the defense teams at 4000 have made unfounded and delusional assumptions about journalistic sources about this or that information that is published. In short, that day was very unsuccessful for defense attorneys, and they seemed to be wasting precious time on nonsense.

The next day an object was productive for both parties.

The defense assisted in the testimony that since 2014 Netanyahu and he have not discussed matters of regulation of the Bezeq Group, but the prosecution assisted in his testimony on how he was sent by Netanyahu to engage in media appointments.

Among other things, he said that Netanyahu sent him to seek prestigious programs for broadcasters on his behalf at the GLC, and for additional appointments. At one point, Ben-Zur tried to prove to Hefetz that the date of his decision to become a state witness is not The investigators' pressure to decide to cross the lines, but an object did not flow with Ben-Zur. "You deviate from the rules of the game," Hefetz said. (And between us, I did not quite understand what kind of threat it is when a witness says in court that he will continue to tell the truth).

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"An event that could have ended in thousands killed."

The magnetometers on the Temple Mount in 2017 (Photo: Walla !, Noam Moskowitz)

Yesterday's day of deliberations already seemed to the observer from the side as perfect, seemingly, for defense.

The same passerby who entered the hearing, could get the feeling that an object is at all witnessed on behalf of the defense attorneys.

The exercise that the defense attorneys performed is exactly the one that they performed in the cross-examination of Ilan Yeshua.

Ben-Zur presented Hefetz with a long and tedious line of critical news items against Netanyahu, and allegedly for his competitors, which were published on the Walla!

During the period to which the indictment relates.

The witness was asked if he thought they were negative, and Hefetz did not content himself with saying them, but demonstrated to the defense orgies when he called many of them "hostile coverage."

He even noted that the profile of Walla!

He's of left-wing, socialist journalists, "sitting on Rothschild Boulevard."

Allegedly, Hefetz surrendered on this day totally to the defense. Everything looks good and beautiful for them, without the answer that Hefetz answered Judge Baram's question: "Was Walla's DNA! Was against Netanyahu"? The judge asked, and Hefetz replied: "Very hostile. If Elovich and Yeshua had traveled to a lonely island, this site would have gone all out against Netanyahu." Well, that's exactly the point, Elovich and Salvation did not travel to a lonely island. They were sitting there at the time over the backs of the editors and reporters, blowing on them with all their might, and that's the whole story.

Let's go for a moment with the stigmatized illustrations of an object to Walla!

At that time: leftists, residents of Rothschild Boulevard, hostile to Netanyahu.

If so, then it is quite clear that they are working on a site that does not see itself as the new Channel 20, or 14, neither as "Israel Today", nor as "Gali Israel";

It is therefore quite clear that his journalists will do everything to criticize Netanyahu's rule (by the way, this is how the press should treat any government, but that is not the discussion, well, we will continue with the image of Rothschild).

Therefore, it is also clear that writing interviews, headlines, derogations on the site, highlighting positive coverage for Netanyahu and omitting negative headlines will not be done there as a matter of routine.

"He was not qualified and dangerous for the citizens of Israel."

Netanyahu (Photo: Official Website, Emil Salman)

Therefore, the assumption is strengthened that if these distortions in Walla! Yes done under these journalists, they were done in a dark and obscene way. It is not for nothing that a Walla! What happened there as victims of crime really. Think for that matter, that tomorrow in the evening edition of the new Channel 14, there will be an article in which for three minutes we will see Gilat Bennett lighting candles with children, with Holocaust survivors, with Righteous Among the Nations, and at the funeral of an important person. Well, what is the chance that such an item will be born naturally? Just like the chance that such news about Sarah Netanyahu was born naturally among the "residents of Rothschild Boulevard" in Walla! (And the editors of this text will forgive me for the insulting illustration I asked of an object)?

Therefore, in truth, the cross-examination, exhausting and legitimate of course of Ben-Zur, during the last day of hearings, in which he revealed to the witness more and more negative coverage of Netanyahu, proves, in pardon, nothing and nothing.

To illustrate my point, I will tell what I said to one of my colleagues who was arguing with me on this very issue in the cessation of the discussion at his uncle's modest buffet in the basement of the courthouse.

Imagine, I told my friend, an indictment being filed against you for stealing ten snacks from the buffet here, and as part of your line of defense you will present for entire court hearings invoices for your purchases here at the buffet, proving you paid religiously for dozens of groceries.

But wait, no one claimed that every time you steal here, you are accused of stealing ten products, you have to deal with what you are accused of, and the evidence you presented is not related to the snacks you allegedly stole.

"Walla! He was very hostile to Netanyahu" (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

The line of defense according to which in many publications Walla!

Acting like a normal site, and perhaps even God forbid biased to the other side (as the defense attorneys say), is a ridiculous line of defense.

The question is simple: if the events - in which the hallucinatory, insane, morbid pressure was exerted on the editors and reporters of Walla! In her case is that of the prosecution.

My opinion has not changed that the prosecution has not yet met this burden of proof.

There is no connection between this and the defensive line of the defense regarding the news that accompanies Buji and Bennett.

We understood.

The judges understood.

Move forward.

In the meantime, it seems that next week Hefetz and Ben Tzur will continue their love-hate games, and if Hefetz's testimony seems confusing to you, wait wait what awaits you in the testimony of Shlomo Pilber, the man who goes to bed every night as a state witness and wakes up in the morning as a loyal tweet to Netanyahu.

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