"I had many thoughts of taking my life": Watch the full testimony of Yehuda Nahari

After we revealed this week that actor Yehuda Nahari claims that Assi Ezer sexually harassed him in a meeting that was supposed to be professional, we bring for the first time the full videotaped testimony, in which he recounts, among other things, his sexual assault at age 8, helplessness in meeting Assi and suicidal thoughts.

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Sagi Ben Nun

07/01/2022

Friday, 07 January 2022, 00:00

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The full photographed testimony of Yehuda Nahari before Walla! culture. The actor claimed that presenter Asi Ezer sexually harassed him when he came home for a professional meeting in 2011. Reporter: Sagi Ben Nun (Stills: Reuven Castro, Video: Shai Makhlouf, Production: Hagit Barak)

"I could take this experience and say, well, I'm retiring from this world, if that's the world. I've had a lot of thoughts about taking my own life. Even lately."

This week revealed at Walla! Culture The story of the actor Yehuda Nahari, in which he claimed that he was sexually harassed by TV man and creator Assi Ezer during a professional meeting at the latter's home, a harassment during which he claimed he twice helped his penis inside and ignored Nahari's request several times. Following Ezer's alleged harassment and following a sexual assault he underwent at the age of 8, Nahari reveals that suicidal thoughts arose in him. "It raises a lot of demons. I'm like walking around the world and not knowing what my own value is, because you're actually treated like a mere god of meat, because you're being exploited, so you do not really know what your value is."

After only the main things were shown in the original exposure in the video, they are now presented in full. Watch the extensive and moving photographic testimony, in which Nahari is exposed with an open face and tells his story.

In the interview, which as mentioned now appears for the first time in its full videotaped version, Nahari tells of the severe sexual assault he experienced at the age of 8 by an 18-year-old guy, who repeatedly watched the harassment he allegedly experienced as an aide;

For the reason he filed a complaint with the police ten years later and not in real time;

About his meeting with Ezer when he participated in the "Ninja Israel" program in 2020;

And what is he asking of Assi Ezer: "I want him to apologize and take responsibility for his actions."

More on Walla!

"Suddenly Asi Ezer pulled out the organ. 'Doesn't that excite you?', He asked. 'Try, what do you care?'"

To the full article

Asi Ezer and Yehuda Nahari (Photo: Reuven Castro)

In January a year ago, Nahari, who is best known for his lead role in Yaron Zilberman's "Terrible Days" in which he played Yigal Amir, filed a complaint with the police alleging sexual harassment and an indecent act by Asi Ezer. After the case was transferred to the State Attorney's Office, it was decided to close it due to the controversial statute of limitations. In an interview with Walla! Tarbut Nahari testified that in 2011 Asi Ezer invited him to his home in Tel Aviv to talk to him about the series he had created, "Being With Her," and told him that he was considering casting him for the lead male role. The session, which was presented as professional, reached completely dark places. Nahari was sent by Walla! For a polygraph test, and was found to be 100 percent truthful.

"He invited me to his house on Rashi Street in Tel Aviv to talk to me about the lead role. It felt very magical, "Nahari testified before us." It was evening, there was still some light. I arrived at the apartment, very excited. When you enter the house, the living room space is open in front of you, opposite there is a large showcase, in front of it two armchairs and before that on the right a large sofa with a living room table. We first sat down on the armchairs, facing each other. He talked to me about the role, the series and who is going to play the model. So he offered the role to Bar Refaeli and I'm already starting to fantasize.

"At some point, after about 30-20 minutes, he moved to the big couch and sat down. He invited me to come over, told me 'Release pressure, let's get close, everything's fine, let's talk for a moment, I want to meet you.' At some point he just started a little. Touching his penis, he said to me, 'Look, I'm very attracted to you, look why you're causing me.' I look and I'm a little shocked. "You do not want to?" I replied: "Absolutely not." At some point he approached me. "Come on, try, what do you care." I told him, "No, I'm not comfortable, please stay away."

More on Walla!

Yehuda Nahari after revealing that he was harassed by Asi Ezer: "I am threatened that my career has been liquidated"

To the full article

Yehuda Nahari (Photo: Reuven Castro)

"Not only did Assi not feel sorry for me, he even thought he could bend me again and not let go. I got up and walked towards the kitchen, I wanted to get myself something to drink, to escape the situation. He followed me, approached, clung to me and seemed to try to talk a little about other things, calm down. Me and lighten up, but I was just trying to slip away from him. I sat back down on the couch, shrunken and frozen from what was happening, he stood in front of me pretty close. Still standing. Suddenly he took out his organ and said 'Look, what, it does not make you? Does not irritate you? Do not you want? "I told him 'No, stay away.' He came and sat down, and I moved to the other side of the couch again. He kept trying, kept exposing the organ again.

"I was sitting there, in a meeting that was supposed to be a professional meeting, where we were supposed to talk about a role for his series, and I wondered how it could be that I was once again in a situation like this, where I felt helpless. I feel like that 8-year-old boy who was sexually assaulted I felt cheated and exploited. In the situation I asked myself 'Wait, so what's going on?' People's careers, and I asked myself, 'Wait, do I have to do this? I do not have to do it ?! ' And I answer to myself as I do, 'What the hell. I am not willing to sell my body for any role and for anyone, under any circumstances. It put me in a terrible situation and on the other hand I did not want to make him feel uncomfortable. "Nahari claims that at no point in his communication with Ezer did he want or bring an explicit or implicit interest in a sexual relationship,Romantic or intimate with help. And although he repeatedly said no and no and no help - the presenter claimed he continued his harassment.

More on Walla!

Dalit told me how Ivgi attacked her.

Anna told the same story.

I realized that it should not be silenced anymore

To the full article

Asi Ezer (Photo: Reuven Castro)

After the Walla!

Nahari wrote in an Instagram post: "I get messages that my career has been eliminated and other difficult and threatening messages only because I dared to come out with my truth. I know the truth, he knows the truth and a polygraph test reflects the truth. This outing was not done out of revenge, publicity or desire "God forbid. The opposite is true. He was born for me, to release a chapter and start a new and better chapter. If you went through such an event, allow yourself to talk about it without fear. Go with the truth."

Asi Ezer responded: "I met Yehuda more than ten years ago at my house for a pleasant and friendly meeting during which we even kissed. All the other things described in the article never happened."

Nahari says that the claim that they kissed is a complete lie: "It was not and was not created."

"We heard about the case for the first time a few hours ago following Walla's request. As far as we understand, Asi denies the said details and in any case the issue is now clear."

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