First publication: Four years after the serious indictment was filed against senior officials of the "Hafels" newspaper, the prosecutor's office withdrew the indictment today (Monday).
The indictment in which the defendants were accused of extorting and threatening the top officials of the economy was canceled even before the evidence hearings in the case began.
The Tel Aviv District Attorney's Office informed the court today that it has decided to drop the indictment against the three "Hafels" executives Natan Grossman, Shmuel Elishev and Abraham Trigger.
Her announcement is the result of a mediation process conducted between the prosecutor's office and defense attorneys Ravit Tzemach and Amit Nir who represented Grossman, Dotan Danieli who represented Elishev and Melki Blitenthal who represented Trigger. The mediation was conducted by Judge Ronit Poznanski Katz, who as mentioned today signed the case that began with dozens of arrests and an indictment serious and ended as stated in the return of the indictment.
In 2019, the indictment was filed against the former owner and editor of "The Level" Grossman, the former CEO of the newspaper Eliashiv, and a number of other individuals, for 27 charges of conspiracy to commit a crime, extortion by threats, harassment, etc. All the defendants belong to the Lithuanian movement. The Jerusalem faction", whose pronunciation is "the level" is distributed free of charge and financed by advertisements and advertisements.
The beginning of the affair in February 2014, when a letter signed by Rabbi Kanievsky Steinman was published in "Yeded Na'eman" and other media, in which they called on the public of their followers "not to bring 'Hafels' into their homes; not to assist 'Hafels' in any way whatsoever, including not to be interviewed or publish in Hafels, and that it is appropriate to inform the publishers of this newspaper that they may lend a hand to the desecration of the name of Heaven."
Grossman, Elyashiv and Trigger were accused of planning to extort threats from officials at large companies in the economy, including Assem, Strauss, Egged and Sanu, with the intention of getting the companies to advertise in "Hafels" and not in "Yad Neman".
This, through alleged harassment through telephones carried out by Hasidic in such a way that their routine of life and work will be disrupted and damaged, and these harassments will only stop if the latter publish ads in "Hafels" and stop publishing in "Yeded Neman".
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