Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir filed a 750,000 shekel defamation lawsuit against former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court for "damaging his good name".
This, after Olmert said in an interview with Turkish television in December 2023: "What I think about Ben Gabir and his friends I have already made clear in Israel, not in Turkey, in Israel in front of them in the most extreme way. I say they slaughter, they kill, they are murderers, they are terrorists. I say the It's about my people, about my ministers in the Israeli government, I don't need you to remind me who they are."
Itamar Ben Gabir
Ehud Olmert/Flash 90, Avshalom Sashoni, Yonatan Zindel
In another interview, on Channel 12, conducted by Olmert and quoted in the lawsuit, he referred to the statements he made on Turkish television and clarified, ""Ben Gabir is an enemy of the State of Israel..."... This group is a group for whom this war in Gaza is just a corridor to the war they want to break out in Judea And Samaria..." This is a provocative conspiratorial group that causes a rift in the nation that causes a division in the nation, it wants to cause a war to break out in Judea and Samaria and I want it to be clear also in the international arena that the State of Israel is not Ben Gabir or Smotrich, it is Shikama Bresler that represents other people the values of morality, justice, courage, belief in democracy, and that they are against the destruction of the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria
, as Ben Gvir and Smotritz want to do."
the least close to the criminal threshold."
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