Today (Sunday) Chief of Staff and former Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon, outgoing Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked and Lt. Gen. ( resp
.) Guy Tzur testified at the Ramla Magistrate's Court today (Sunday).
Netanyahu, against David Artzi, who published a video last year in which he describes how in 1999 he met with Shimron and the latter showed him a contract he made between Netanyahu and Sarah during his first term.
This is, apparently, following the public disclosure of an extramarital affair conducted by Benjamin Netanyahu.
During the hearing, General Zur testified that "the Chief of Staff asked Prime Minister Netanyahu to be the military secretary.
Netanyahu requested that there be three candidates.
We were invited to several interviews each.
During the period of Amud Anan, I was called by the chief of staff's office and told me that I should come to Balfour."
Zur told about Sara Netanyahu's engagement and said: "Prime Minister Netanyahu asked me one question, then Sara Netanyahu whispered something in his ear and he left. Then she (Sara Netanyahu) interviewed me for 45 minutes. She started with a few personal questions about me. And the conversation continued Long with questions about the disengagement. If he should have refused or refused. If he should do it again."
Bibi Netanyahu, Sara Netanyahu (Photo: Flash 90, Tomer Neuberg)
After Zur, Shaked testified, who initially refused to come to the hearing and said on the witness stand: "I have nothing to do with the issue of the lawsuit. I don't know if there is an agreement or no agreement. What's more, I didn't see that all of Netanyahu's office managers were summoned. I don't know how to shed light on The claims to the agreement are also circumstantial."
Shaked even explained why she did not want to testify: "Since I am a public figure and there are journalists here, it is important that they know my opinion, that I have nothing to contribute. I am the one who sent the media the request to the court to cancel my testimony."
At this stage, attorney Liad Wertzheiser, who represents David Artzi, asked to declare Shaked a hostile witness, but the court refused the request.
When Shaked was asked if there was any precipitation between her and Sara Netanyahu, she replied: "As far as I'm concerned, there isn't. As far as she's concerned, maybe there is."
She denied that she had previously flown with the prime minister or been at the residence or at the Netanyahu family's home.
Shaked also claimed that she "doesn't remember the reasons" why she left Netanyahu's office while he was the chairman of the opposition, after being asked if Sarah's involvement led to this.
"Did we think there was involvement?
Yes, we thought there was involvement," said Shaked, who refused to specify what was the focus of the conflict between her and the Prime Minister's wife. "I don't understand what it has to do with it.
You're trying to get gossip out of me that I've never talked about." Following Shaked's testimony, the ministerial changeover ceremony at the Ministry of the Interior was delayed.
During his testimony, Ya'alon testified about his first period in politics as minister for strategic issues in 2008: "When I was preparing for the elections, one of the people who joined me was Naftali Bennett. When I got the position, I really wanted him to be my chief of staff in the office, and then I received a puzzling request from Benjamin Netanyahu that 'Can't work'. Bennett told me about his and Shaked's time, and said that the one who worked to keep them away was Sara Netanyahu."
According to him, "I worked with Netanyahu for many years, even when I was in the army. I knew him well. On certain issues I understood that there was (Sarah's) interference. For example, I thought it was wrong for the government to control the media, and therefore when he tried to convey to me a message that he wanted to take over the Israeli airwaves." When I was the Minister of Defense, I thought this was not true.
He tried to convince me, he sent me Filber (the director general of the Ministry of Communications at the time), but I didn't let him interfere in the matter. This happened after I saw his previous interventions in the past, among other things when he tried to take over Channel 10.
At some point, nocturnal telephone conversations begin, at 1 a.m., on topics that are not the world's agenda, and I understand that these conversations have another partner or partner.
I understand there is pressure from there.
Since I spent many, many hours with Netanyahu, there is already a language that is spoken between us, and there is another language that is for the purpose of listening to someone else."
Ya'alon told about the appointment of Yossi Cohen as head of the Mossad: "Netanyahu and I consulted a lot, there was mutual appreciation. When the appointment of the next head of the Mossad was on the agenda, he consulted with me. We came to the understanding that the right thing to do was to appoint N., and not Yossi Cohen. On the day he was supposed to His decision was to be published, I was with him at the hearing. At the end of the hearing, we stayed face to face and talked about the expected appointment. I understood that the person who was going to be appointed was N. He said he would hold a press conference at eight in the evening, I told him he would issue a statement, but he insisted on it. I understood from the spokesman My understanding that the press conference is delayed, and indeed only after an hour - at 21:00 - it was announced that Yossi Cohen would be appointed. I spoke with N. about the delay - he said that he received a call before the release and he also understands that it is not just a conversation with Netanyahu, that someone else is listening, And he was asked if he would be loyal to them. He said he would be loyal to the state, and that probably sealed his fate."
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