Arnon Milchan's cross-examination will begin on Tuesday when the witness answers questions from Prime Minister Netanyahu's lawyers from Brighton, England. Haddad's task is to fend off a number of benefits specified in the indictment and to neutralize the regulatory actions that according to the indictment Netanyahu carried out a conflict of interest for Arnon Milchan.
The testimony of the main witness in Case 1000, Arnon Milchan, dealt with regulatory actions that according to the indictment, Netanyahu carried out for Milchan, his close friend, while receiving favors from him. According to the indictment, these are actions with a serious conflict of interest.
Milchan arrives to testify on his second day of testimony
Minute by minute
Prosecutor Liat Ben-Ari read transcripts from Milchan's interrogation as part of the 2000 case:
Nir Hefetz: Bibi told me yesterday that he called me into the room and told me that he is what I think if I am willing to go to this. It is possible to stabilize matters and to push the situation backwards
Milchan: Are you sure?
Artifact: No, no, it confuses the mind, you can't
Milchan: The question is why is he happening to stabilize, he can stabilize the situation that Sheldon will be left with 85,90 and <>,<> for a few months no more than that. Sheldon's intentions are to be the number one newspaper in the country. I will tell you the situation is like this, Noni doesn't believe him and he doesn't believe Noni The facts on the ground say, for the sake of quiet, I'm willing to postpone for a few months.
Artifact: 85 in exchange for quiet?
Miltzen: But quiet until Passover or moth, I know what. The silence includes that there will be no such law
Researcher: Whatever?
Miltzen: Of course there won't be
Heifetz: What started the fire was the law?
Miltzen: I assume it's the law, but not what's going to turn off is the law or the non-law
Heifetz: We need to talk to both of them, fill in the title of Live and Let Live. Both sides need to understand
Miltzen: But I told him to Sheldon, give a definition of an animal and let live. Sheldon says I don't defame him and he doesn't slander Rehm: Noni told me the definition of live and let live is 85,<>.
Milchan's testimony yesterday
Milchan said that Netanyahu sent the Director General of the Ministry of Communications, Shlomo Filber, now a state witness, to advise him on a deal in the communications market. He also said that Netanyahu told him that he would ask Yair Lapid to act on his behalf as finance minister and that he would assist him with the revocation of Milchan's American visa. He also said that most of the "mass of cigars" he had was destined for Netanyahu.
"I told Netanyahu about my problem that Channel 10 [which he owned at the time] could not exist, and he called Filber and asked him to check and help," Milchan said. "I spoke with Filber at Beit Yanai about regulation and how to promote the merger. Filber was responsible for that." Prosecutor Liat Ben-Ari asked if he had informed Netanyahu about the talks with Filber, to which he replied: "I'm sure I updated him. Netanyahu was the communications minister. The answer is yes." Milchan confirmed in his testimony that Netanyahu asked his office chief Ari Herro, now the state's witness, to examine the issue of Milchan's American visa in response to Milchan's request.
Milchan said he never received gifts from Netanyahu and the relationship was not mutual, except for a gift Sarah gave to his wife Amanda. "I don't remember," Milchan replied to a question from prosecutor Ben Ari: "Did you receive gifts from the Netanyahus?" Ben Ari read from Milchan's interrogation at the police, where he responded to the question: "Do you know him who brings gifts? Do you want me to fall to the floor laughing?" Judge Rebecca Friedman Feldman asked the witness: "What you said is true, that he never brought you gifts?" to which Milchan replied: "Yes, that's true." The prosecutor continued to read from the police interrogation, where Milchan said: "It could be that Sarah once gave a necklace or something, or a pin, I don't know, a keychain." In court, Milchan said: "I know that Mrs. Netanyahu gave gifts to Amanda, I just don't know what and how."
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