Opinion | Hefetz's testimony proved - the State Attorney's Office in political persecution Israel today

I will dedicate the concluding chord from the testimony of State Witness Nir Hefetz against former Prime Minister MK Benjamin Netanyahu and others to Hefetz's explicit statements, as brought from the Jerusalem District Court.

And maybe we'll start from the end to the beginning.

The fact that the voice of the undersigned and many others is expressed in this newspaper and silenced elsewhere in the mainstream media, is what tells the story of MK Netanyahu's mission.

Hefetz described it as an object as far as the Israeli media market was concerned, which operated as a monopoly and harmed democracy in the absence of expression for the voice of the national-right camp: "... At the party level, and also at the state level. "

Netanyahu acted as an elected official for the benefit of the public.

Contrary to what was alleged in the indictment, Netanyahu did not violate the trust placed in him by the voters.

On the contrary, he acted for him.

The desire to diversify and present a variety of opinions, pluralism, is part of the pillars of democracy.

Hefetz and Mozes in court, this week // Photo: Yoni Rickner

The prosecution paid the object a heavy and unknown legal price. Hefetz, for his part, feared that his secrets would become public domain, and so he agreed to give in to the physical, mental and illegal pressure exerted on him by the police on the orders of the State Attorney's Office. Not only did Netanyahu's awareness of the commission of the offenses as she attributed to the Netanyahu prosecutor's office - he also despised a thesis that states that MK Netanyahu acted for criminal motives: I did not think at all about a situation of bribery and fan coverage, no one dreamed of it. It's a baby that broke into the world that someone decided to brief a certain journalist (Gidi Weitz - Haaretz newspaper). I sit in the system, sit with everyone, it did not occur to us at all ... he (Netanyahu) ... complained that the coverage in Yedioth was negative. If he had received a few months of kindness it would have been a drop in the ocean for him, how is that a bribe? ... and also reminds you that he grinned at Gidi Weitz's thesis. It's really absurd that he thought it was a formula of bribery ... it did not even think.I know what they were thinking, these are constant conversations. "

In his cross-examination regarding the 1000 case (the gift case), Nir Hefetz proved the close friendship between Milchen and the Netanyahu family and claimed: "Cigars for Netanyahu, and Netanyahu did not let it enter but transferred it to the state."

Throughout his testimony in court, Nir Hefetz spoke of the hostile coverage Netanyahu received in both Walla and Yedioth Ahronoth, so much so that Netanyahu consciously chose to give up the largest newspaper in the country, then during the election period, knowing full well that they were only persecuting him.

Netanyahu and his defense attorneys in court, Photo: Yoav Dodkevitz

From Wednesday evening, "prosecutors" from the State Attorney's Office are sent to produce a public illustration as if state witness Nir Hefetz had provided the goods for Netanyahu's conviction.

If so, the question arises, why exactly now does the prosecution choose to bring to the testimony of the chief investigators of Nir Hefetz from Lahav 433, who claim that Hefetz is unreliable.

Even after Hefetz's testimony has ended, instead of drawing lessons, delving into facts and basing them on them, the prosecution continues on a political journey and goes the furthest from the legal truth.

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