The corruption case in Hadera: the court overturned the conviction of the mayor's deputy
Mayor Orly Nagar's deputy mayor was convicted of fraud and breach of trust, as well as receiving bribes after investigating Mayor Gandelman's diary of meetings he had with businessmen. However, at today's hearing, the judge overturned the conviction and sentenced her to 180 hours of public service. "Her position was weak - she acted as a doer of his word"
Yoav Itiel
06/10/2022
Thursday, 06 October 2022, 12:07 Updated: 12:33
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On video: Orly Nagar, former mayor of Hadera, at the Peace Court in Haifa. October 6, 2022 (Yoav Itiel)
The Haifa Magistrate's Court overturned (Thursday) the conviction of Hadera mayor Orli Nagar - who at his request deleted from his diary meetings he had with a businessman. Judge Orit Kantor sentenced her to 180 hours of service for the public. By him, when her position is weaker than his and when he has the authority and has the direct interest in achieving the results, the subject of the actions," the judge stated in the ruling.
In a plea deal between her defense attorney, Micha Patman, and the prosecution through attorney Nir Horowitz, Nagar admitted to her actions while serving as the director of Rosh's office The municipality of Hadera at the time, Zvika Gendelman, was convicted of fraud and breach of trust, obtaining something fraudulently, and more - but the judge ruled differently and overturned her conviction.
Conviction overturned.
Carpenter (photo: official website, Yoav Itiel)
The events attributed to the mayor's deputy revolved around her request to the municipality in January 2018, according to the freedom of information law, to receive the meeting diaries of Gendelman and his two deputies. According to the indictment in which Nagar was convicted, she and Gendelman agreed to delete some of the meetings that appeared in the diary, including the meetings with the businessman Sami Levy, former head of the Shas faction and deputy mayor of Hadera, who was a contractor and real estate developer and has significant economic interests in the city. She was also asked to change the topic and location of other meetings.
According to the charge, Nagar and Gendelman agreed that Nagar would be transferred to the commissioner of freedom The information is an exaggerated estimate of the working hours required to process the application, with the aim of presenting the applicant with a false representation that the processing fee will be high, which may discourage him and cause him to withdraw his application.
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was suspended from his post.
Gendelman (Photo: Shlomi Gabai)
Nagar made the changes in Gendelman's computerized diary, produced a false output and overestimated the working hours required to handle the request.
In accordance with these, the Commissioner for Freedom of Information replied to the applicant that the processing of his request would amount to approximately four thousand shekels.
The applicant did not pay the treatment fee in view of the high cost and the application was closed without providing the information.
A separate indictment was filed against Gendelman in which he was charged with these offenses, for this affair, and with other offenses as well.
His trial is ongoing and he is suspended from his position as mayor.
A carpenter who has been working at the municipality for 28 years, remains an employee of the Hadera municipality but was transferred from the office to the engineering department.
She is expected to be fired following the conviction.
"I'm sorry, I take responsibility for what I did. I'm sorry for this moment that it happened," Orli Nagar told Judge Orit Kantor in tears at a previous hearing.
"My life was just really destroyed. My family was hurt, everything was destroyed for me."
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