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Will you shed light on benefits? Milchen's personal assistant testifies in case 1000 - Walla! news

2022-07-05T07:11:15.634Z


After the two state witnesses have already presented their version in court, Hadas Klein, the main witness in the "gifts affair" will go up to the witness stand. This, after last October she asked to provide new information regarding the affair of purchasing jewelry for Sarah Netanyahu worth NIS 50,000


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Will you shed light on benefits?

Milchen's personal assistant testifies in the 1000 case

After the two state witnesses have already presented their version in court, Hadas Klein, the main witness in the "gifts affair" will go up to the witness stand.

This, after last October she asked to provide new information regarding the affair of purchasing jewelry for Sarah Netanyahu worth NIS 50,000

Yael Friedson

04/07/2022

Monday, 04 July 2022, 23:07 Updated: Tuesday, 05 July 2022, 10:04

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In the video: State Witness Pilber, giving his latest testimony as part of the 4000 case (Walla system!)

Arnon Milchen's personal assistant, Hadas Klein, appeared this morning (Tuesday) at the witness stand in Hall 315 in the Jerusalem District Court, as part of the evidentiary hearing in the 1000 case, in which opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu is accused of fraud and breach of trust.



State witnesses Nir Hefetz and Shlomo (Momo) Pilber have already testified regarding the 1000 case, but Klein is in fact the first key witness in the 1000 case, and who is expected to shed light on the alleged benefits transferred from Milchen and billionaire James Packer to Netanyahu and his family.

The main witness in the 1000 case. Klein (Photo: Walla! NEWS, Facebook)

According to the indictment, the benefits from Milchen and Packer, which included boxes of cigars and packages of champagne, were given to Benjamin and Sarah Netanyahu continuously, in response to requests and even demands, including through deliveries, even when Milchen and Packer were not in Israel. Supply line. "

The scope of the benefits accrued to the amount of NIS 690,000, and they were given to Netanyahu in connection with his public positions and his status as Prime Minister of Israel.



Netanyahu, for his part, acted to assist Milchen in obtaining an American visa, and to extend the "Milchen Law," which grants him tax benefits.

Netanyahu also asked Melichen to invest in the Israeli media market, and even brought with him Pilber, then the director general of the Ministry of Communications. Authorized Netanyahu to receive gifts like cigars from his friend.



Lawyer Boaz Ben-Tzur represented Milchen and his assistant Hadas Klein in investigating the 1000 and 2000 cases, and even flew to London to accompany him to the interrogation room in 2017. Following pressure from capital tycoon Larry Allison on Milchen, the latter agreed to release Ben-Tzur from the representation, so that the lawyer can represent Netanyahu in the 4000 case. Meanwhile, last October Klein contacted the prosecution team and asked to provide new information regarding the 1000 case, about purchasing a piece of jewelry for Sarah Netanyahu worth NIS 50,000.

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"I have a love for Arnon"

Klein testified that she has been working with Arnon Milchen since 1986, and since 2007 as his personal assistant.

"We have no business in the country," she said. The others he needs abroad, to coordinate appointments.

Everything that moves - myrtle. "



Klein was asked what activity has been in the country in recent years, and she said that since the beginning of the investigations Milchen has not arrived in the country." In previous years there were fruitful years, lots of guests, lots of hospitality, activities Something like 6-5 houses in the mansion, there's a housekeeper, housekeepers around the clock, a driver.

We also have an apartment in Herzliya that they maintain. "



"Arnon likes to sleep late but a lot of people are hosted. We are there all the time," she added.

"He usually comes around December. The family of his wife Amanda from South Africa so they would come to the country and also fly to them. They would also come for Passover or the holidays, and we would build our vacations according to their vacations. Most of my life is 24/7, even if "I braid on Yom Kippur. I work. I love and accept it. Arnon can call at four in the morning. Everything is part of the job, but we are really a family. My little daughter would be a regular guest there."



She stressed that "I have a great love for Arnon. Of course in the last six years we have seen less. Before the Corona era we flew to him a lot, since the Corona I have not traveled but we are in constant contact. Even if there were months of tension between us, but most of the time we are together ".

Netanyahu and Milchen (Photo: Walla! NEWS, courtesy of News 2, from the "main edition")

Attorney Dr. Alon Gildin of the State Attorney's Office for Taxation and Economics asked Klein who pays her the salary.

"Over the years, I insisted that I would always be Arnon's employee, even if it was through a management company. I started getting paid by Zeev Feldman and his holding company. In 2018, we moved to receive a salary," she replied.



Klein was also asked to describe her relationship with billionaire James Packer.

"James Packer is the son of Carrie Packer who was Arnon's partner in a Hollywood studio. An Australian media family pretty much overlaps with Murdoch. Arnon was also a partner with Rupert Murdoch. Arnon knew James as a teenager. When the father died, James did not really know what. "With the business, Arnon offered James to buy the father's stock at a very fair price, and James said he would never forget that gesture. He is a few years older than him, he felt not like his spiritual father, but he kept it."



"And what does Packer do?" Asked Advocate Gildin. "Today he is done with it. Until recently, he owned the Crown chain, a chain of casinos in Australia and Macau," she explained.



Klein said she met Packer about a decade ago. 2013 Arnon offered him to come and get to know Israel.

He was supposed to come with the family, we arranged for him the whole trip, "she said," he is an amazing man, a good man, a little fragile and crisp, two feet tall of kindness.

Good soul.

He was here for something like a week, visited, we took him to Yad Vashem, Arnon met him with Mr. Netanyahu and the family, among other things he met him with Bozi Herzog, to get to know the country, and he was enthusiastic about the country.

He was very broken because he was on the verge of divorce, this is not the right time to visit.

Since then the relationship has developed greatly.

Jamie came to the country a lot, more than Arnon came to the country, Jamie came to the country.

He fell in love with the country. "



"He is a special character, extreme in all directions, Yonatan Hasson (the driver) and I accompanied him everywhere. He fell in love here and wanted to settle here, not to live but to get a lot. We took it upon ourselves Jonathan and I both because he is charming and for Arnon. It was "Obsessive. It has become a level I do not see the house," she added.

"An extreme figure in all directions."

James Packer (Photo: Reuters)

Judge Moshe Bar Am asked Klein about working for Packer in Israel.

"If for Arnon it's 22 hours a day, for James it's 26 hours a day. I will not say things about medical confidentiality, at some point he came here very ill. I was [like] a compassionate nurse. It's work around the clock. There were two periods. "Such, one that preceded the investigations and another period. In the difficult period of February when we bought the house in Caesarea near the Netanyahu family, and in the period when we renovated the house we took another house to Caesarea, we took a whole team of caregivers," she said.



"The job included flying flights on his private plane, and at one point he was Mariah Carey's partner so there were flights to her shows. He doesn't like to fly alone. For meetings with Mr. Netanyahu in Jerusalem - stay there, take rooms at the Citadel of David Hotel," Klein added.



"He wanted an apartment to have. We rented an apartment at Hotel 901, it is connected to the hotel, because we spent a lot there and there we took rooms for accommodation because it is impossible to leave it. It is maximum in time, around the clock," Klein testified. Personally, a personal trainer, who all take rooms at a nearby hotel. "



"Even though Arnon knew we shared, it was hard for him too," she stressed.

"We went through very difficult years, it ended in October 2016 when James left, although to this day he has not stopped his share of the salaries of Jonathan, Shani [the housekeeper] and mine. He writes to me to take care of myself, that he cares and he hopes that one day he can To return to Israel. "



She testified that in 2009 Milchen submitted an adaptation form to a new immigrant, "and he told Jamie that maybe he could enjoy it, and he introduced him to Zavik (Zeev Feldman, CPA, former deputy income tax commissioner) - they set up a company,

"It was clear to me that Packer would buy right away"

Gildin asked Klein about buying the houses for Packer in Israel, and she said that after buying the apartment in Royal Beach and the house in Caesarea, "she came to us from Netanyahu to Arnon that there is a house next to it, a fence was separated. "To a house that will see how he is progressing. Arnon said he does not need houses, but James wants to settle in the country so he will buy. It is not new to me that James will help."



"Mr. Netanyahu called me one Friday and he gave the phone call of attorneys Michael Ravillo and David Shomron so they could handle the purchase," she said.

"I did give the phone and spoke to one of them immediately after Mr. Netanyahu spoke to me. After that I met the apartment broker Menachem Zilberberg who they gave. I passed it to James and told him what it was. I was clear he would buy immediately. He wanted to please him."

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