The hearing of the evidence in the mutual lawsuits filed by Stav Shapir and Yair Netanyahu for defamation began today (Tuesday) with Shapir asking the court to oblige Netanyahu to compensate her with half a million shekels and on the other hand Netanyahu asking Shapir to compensate him with 300 thousand shekels.
According to Shapir's lawsuit, Netanyahu responded to the criticism she leveled on Facebook against his father's conduct as prime minister during Passover last year, when he hosted his second son, Avner, in his home, despite the lockdown imposed at the time.
Yair Netanyahu wrote about this in response: "Are you sure you want to talk about morality in light of the failed project you tried to set up with a pedophile lover and regular visitor to Epstein's pedophile island? Ugly inside and out. You will already find a permanent Arab husband who won't throw you away. Go to some village, convert to Islam and leave us quietly".
Stav Shapir in the courtroom, today, photo: Yehoshua Yosef
According to Shapir, the post made a false claim, that it is a company of people who commit criminal offenses.
According to her, the post also tries to humiliate her on the basis of her gender and damage her public status.
Following Netanyahu's post, Shapir posted another post, in which she wrote: "Now, when I read how the Prime Minister's son writes, who was educated in his own way and gets rid of our money. Liar, evil, racist, disturbing. The child's mouth, the father's legacy."
Netanyahu answered her in response: "Stupid communist, lover of pedophiles. I did not take a shekel from the state. You, on the other hand, owe the taxpayer eight million shekels."
Shapir, for her part, denies the claims.
Yair Netanyahu in the courtroom, today, photo: Yehoshua Yosef
Following Shapir's lawsuit, a counterclaim was filed by Yair Netanyahu regarding posts that Shapir published on Twitter such as: "I have no business with such scum. I have business with the father who raised him. With the father who failed with him, and is now trying to fail all of our children."
"You had an Arab boyfriend, what do you want?"
Attorney Lankri, Yair Netanyahu's defense attorney, suggested that Stav Shapir withdraw the lawsuit. Former Knesset member Shapir claimed: "Your client used sexual violence as a strategy, tried to attribute to me treason in the country." At this point, Yair Netanyahu burst out: "But you had an Arab friend , What do you want?".
Attorney Lankri argued: "How are you able to say in court that you were hurt on a personal level and this is not an ideological discussion - you started it, you did not aim at the Prime Minister, but at his son, you are actually the one who comes down and shoots arrows and expects from the prosecutor, who hears blasphemy on the news every morning against his family and you hope he will respond with roses and roses."
When Attorney Lankeri referred to Shapir's tweet from the Corona days, in which she spoke of the Netanyahu family's "eyeballing" during the lockdown, who had a lavish Seder night - Netanyahu burst out again: "Economic uncertainty?
You are married to a billionaire."
Later in the hearing, Yair Netanyahu lashed out at Shapir again, and was removed from the courtroom by Judge Barkai. On leaving the courtroom, he hissed the word "bitch" at Shapir. When Attorney Lankeri claimed that he did not hear the comment,
The audience in the hall answered him loudly, including Shapir's attorney, "He called her a 'bitch'."
After a short time, Netanyahu was returned to the hall.
At one point in the discussion Shapir said that she "wishes for Yair to have a job".
Netanyahu lashed out again and brought up her marital status: "Not everyone marries a billionaire."
Later, Attorney Lankri asked Shafir to confirm that she had an Arab boyfriend named Mazen Zoavi. Shafir replied: "No, that's a complete lie!" Netanyahu snapped again: "Whoever has an Arab partner is allowed to celebrate Ramadan." Shafir replied: "No Everything wrong with an Arab friend, if I had one I would say, but this is a lie and it was said in an attempt to discredit me."
After that, Netanyahu turned to Judge Barkai: "She is shedding my blood, in a moment Shafir will accuse me of genocide" - and was taken out of the courtroom a second time.
"Don't bring me back until she finishes," Netanyahu hissed as he left.
"It's only important to tell my truth," Netanyahu said during the cross-examination phase.
"It's another day when my blood is spilled, I'm a human being and not a robot, like all the lawsuits have done, I'm a human being. When arrows are shot at me I bleed, I'm flesh and blood... Stav Shapir has no problem making lawsuits, because she has a billionaire husband , for her this lawsuit is like buying chewing gum."
Attorney Rosen, who represents Stav Shapir in the proceedings, asked Tanahu to confirm that he lived with his parents when the lawsuit was filed. "I lived there with my parents and it didn't cost a penny and it doesn't come close to Stav Shapir's 8 million," Netanyahu replied, and threatened to take down the microphone and leave The discussion "if the lawyer Rosen continues to shout at him".
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