Aharon Barak is trying to minimize the damage he himself has created. All the experts agree that Netanyahu must not gamble and continue the trial. But the exchanges in the ombudsman's office are not necessarily bad news for the former prime minister
After the bombing of the contacts for a plea deal in the Netanyahu trial, this week began with a significant statement by President Aharon Barak in an interview with Tamar Almog 11: "Netanyahu would have defended the court system, and it is true ... "And his position is serious, and he becomes a shatterer of this system ... The approval (of the deal) takes the sting out of the demolition of the court system."
Barak fears the length of the trial;
This is what can be understood.
Next to Besta in the Carmel market was a life-size picture of Netanyahu with the caption: "Dreyfus trial."
But Barak is wrong about the collapse of the system.
Netanyahu said what he said.
But when the trial began, everyone expected to see what the testimony in the Jerusalem District Court would yield.
At first they raised questions, especially in the testimony of a tree of salvation.
When will the bull arrive?
The goods did not arrive by truck, and moreover - salvation made an impression on the judges that it is impossible to know when he is telling the truth and when he is lying.
It is impossible to know whether he is a state witness or a police agent, as the investigator Peleg who starred this week hinted at.
Nir Hefetz's testimony revealed the method, which for some reason President Barak and senior jurists in the country, at least those in academia and the media, did not express shock about.
In an interview with me, Prof. Asa Kasher expressed a moral devoid of moral condemnation of turning Nir Hefetz's family into a hostage, as is customary in the Stalinist system.
Some of the intellectuals, who nevertheless expressed moral shock when exposed even before the trial began to the police's interrogation methods against Netanyahu himself when he was still prime minister, were silenced in the face of the trial.
"I tell you the repercussions here are beyond criminal and prison. Your family cell is currently in danger following the same bomb I told you would arrive in the near future," investigator Peleg explicitly threatened.
"You face an existential danger to your family cell."
In parentheses: This has been the message of the Israeli media, led by Yedioth Ahronoth, to Benjamin Netanyahu since 1996: We will run your immediate family and your associates.
Peleg's colleague, Nir Schwartz (two out of hundreds), broke the coffers.
In essence, what he said in his testimony: either Snir Hefetz will confess or he will be a state witness.
What will he admit?
In what we tell him.
He is required to submit a version that will construct some kind of offense that the investigators did not actually know what it was.
The most serious: Supreme Court justices this week indirectly announced their sponsorship of the crimes underlying the Netanyahu trial.
This was in the telephone verdict of Yonatan Orich and Ofer Golan.
They recognized that the search of the phones was done without permission, an illegal act;
But the result is usable, it is bleached.
Aharon Barak was one of those who pressed the doomsday machine button;
He is now trying his best to stop the automatic destruction mechanism.
This has implications for former Prime Minister Netanyahu's considerations, whether to sign a plea deal or not.
Some senior jurists I spoke to this week were pretty clear about the viability of a plea deal, one way or another. When you see the program from top to bottom against him, from the Supreme Court to the State Attorney's Office, from President Barak to Mandelblit, and the rabies-stricken media - the risk is too great. Some of the experts who even urged Netanyahu not to give up but to neutralize all the charges later in the trial, speak differently in private. Bibi cannot spend his days in a lengthy and costly trial.
But the question of the timing of the plea deal can be reconsidered, regardless of the continuation of the public struggle against the legal system that has embarked on a fishing campaign that has become a targeted thwarting.
If there is any bluff or scam game, it's the story of the urgent need to end the matter as long as Counsel Mandelblit is in office;
As the reporters of old used to say, "the hourglass is ticking."
The media sells the shortening fuse narrative;
But this is probably in Mandelblit's interest and not necessarily Netanyahu's.
The next important witness is Shlomo Pilber.
Apparently, it will increase doubts about Bezeq Veteran 4000.
Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer wrote in Haaretz at the time (2019) that the 2000 case was punishable by at least three years in prison.
Now, as part of the contacts with Netanyahu's lawyers, every two thousand cases are going down.
Where have the serious offenses gone?
Bag 4000 is peeled off from the bribe.
The problem is that breach of trust is a growing industry;
This is a very flexible section.
Past experience shows that a new legal adviser can certainly turn to the stick path compared to its predecessors;
This is what Menachem Mazuz did when he received a ready-made indictment (by Edna Arbel) against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon immediately upon taking office as attorney general.
He neutralized the indictment, and the sequel was the etrog saga.
Attorney Weinstein dismantled part of the indictment against Lieberman that rolled into his hands.
The next attorney general will not have as much of a commitment to the charges against Netanyahu as Mandelblit has.
It's not too big a gamble to let the trial flow for another period of time, assuming the case collapse continues.
There is a likelihood that the disgrace will turn into a cyclone.
The prosecution and the judges will have an increased interest in ending the affair.
A one-party regime
One line was drawn between Merav Michaeli, Prof. Kremnitzer and Peter Bainert - and he is the majority of the Jewish public in the management of state affairs.
About a year ago I received a message from an unidentified person who predicted - During the time of Ehud Barak as prime minister who created the One Israel party; all together against Netanyahu. This is what may be here soon and this is the plan. All parties on the left and right will unite against Netanyahu and form a monstrous coalition that will later be joined by religious parties "They all sat together in a huge coalition with almost no opposition, with the cooperation of ninety percent of the media, senior members of the former security personnel, academics, culture and of course the law enforcement authorities."
What has been organized and accomplished is far-reaching.
Whoever is capable of this, will be able to move on and empty the content and essence of the State of Israel.
This week I saw an authentic letter in the handwriting of the mythological terrorist Carlos, who broke through with Yasser Arafat to al-Qaeda, bin Laden and the successors of Islamist terrorism in Europe, the United States and Israel. He wrote in 2002 that The Holy - I am convinced in my position that peace will prevail when the Israeli Jews become equal citizens of a multicultural, multi-religious, free and democratic Palestine. "
I am sure that Merav Michaeli and Mordechai Kremnitzer would have signed this text.
Peter Bainert, for sure.
Gilad Karib.
Whoever organizes the "party government," which alienates most of the Jewish public from state affairs, will be able to lead Israel to the post-national, multicultural, multi-religious vision.
Especially when next to him is a strong and reliable ally like Mansour Abbas.
The power demonstrated in the Netanyahu trial shows the capabilities.
Even in those parts of the media that were supposed to lead the resistance movement, cracks can be discerned.
"We will be called Straight Force!"
A letter from the archives shows how much the Aaronson family suffered from ongoing public harassment, and yet
one of the heroes of the period who grew up against the background of the Netanyahu trial, Moshik Kovarsky, entered mythology. He is a descendant of the members of the First Aliyah, a family that originated in Ness Ziona. He recently retrieved from the archives a letter written by Rebecca Aaronson on May 12, 1927, to one of his ancestors: We are helping those who are. Aaron and Sarah and their friends brought disgrace and disgrace on the people of Israel in general and the Jews of Israel in particular. Alexander Aaronson literally destroyed the farmers in our country in general and the members of the Bnei Binyamin Center in particular. "And more and more. I will be honored to inform you, because from now on, the Aaronsons will no longer sin.
Rebecca did not even know that the name of the Land of Israel would become Palestine or Palestine or Palestine.
She's talking about heritage.
It turns out that there was a long-standing attempt to drag the name of the Aaronsons in the mud.
But for a generation now Aaron and Sarah have acquired their status in history as heroic myths.
A matter of survival
After Netanyahu, the main battle will be between Barkat and Edelstein - and many may join the Likud, including Gideon Saar himself
according to the polls, Netanyahu is the Likud's biggest electoral asset, but will have a hard time forming a coalition, or rather - dismantling the government party;
While the Likud, led by those claiming the crown, has weakened to a large extent and the government may remain in the hands of Yair Lapid.
There is probably an agreement in the Likud that after the first round of primaries, two will go up against each other, and these are Nir Barkat and Yuli Edelstein.
Emerald, on paper, is more popular.
It is not known how much of his "popularity" is orchestrated.
As a national leader, Edelstein is preferable.
Israel Katz, the most experienced and suitable candidate for prime minister, lacks a path through which he conquers the Likud.
If Netanyahu goes home, it will take the Likud two to four months to elect the new chairman, who is the constitutional candidate for prime minister. In the current Knesset, even in the current Knesset, some elements of the right and possibly Gantz can be peeled out of a Bennett-Lapid government in order to form a new government.
The problem is that members of the party government like it more than it seems.
The right and Saar will prefer a place in the Likud government.
This will help them survive the next election.
It is possible that Gideon Saar will get a place in the Likud, but not in a package with his friends.
It is doubtful whether ordinary Likudniks will allow this.
Eliezer Shavid, Photo: Miriam Tzachi
A fundamentalist opposition
With the passing of Prof. Eliezer Shavid - a pioneer, Palmach fighter and national Jew
on Saturday, almost two weeks ago, Zvi Tzameret spent time with Eliezer Shavid at his home in Abu Tor. In
the same soul-searching conversation between them, Shavid returned to the formative experiences of his life during the War of Independence. "At one point after we captured the city," said Shabid, who was 19 at the time, "we felt like we were being captured. We were surrounded. Jordanian soldiers mingling with the population would shoot at us. The deportation was done without choice. After the occupation. There was no choice." Still, the convoys of refugees from Lod were etched in Shavid's memory and probably oppressed him all his life.
He was born in Jerusalem but was not a typical Sabra. There was in his image a mixture in which the Jew was more dominant than the native. Nevertheless, he went to a pioneering youth movement and to the Palmach. He did not deny exiled Judaism nor did he oppose Yiddish.
In that last conversation, Zvi Tzameret recalled, "And
in 1979 he received a sabbatical from the Hebrew University, and according to the demands, he was supposed to spend it abroad. He refused, and took the sabbatical year in Kiryat Shmona. At that time, Kiryat Shmona was double Ashkelon double hundred.
During the Lavon affair, he loosely belonged to the opposition group "Man Hayesod," Ben-Gurion.
Gradually strengthened his national position, and in recent years has become very oppositional to the Supreme Court.
He argued that "the law of human dignity and liberty identifies man with his selfishness; on the other hand, the constitution of the Torah of Moses recognizes the freedom of man (with) responsibility for himself and for the entire human environment ... within which he lives."
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