In the video: allegations against the chairman of the Bar Association Avi Himi/Photo: News 13
Attorney Avi Hami. Even if you accept his version that is supported by the investigation, it is difficult to think of him as a victim of anything other than his own doing/screenshot, Network 13
A friend once told me, a senior member of one of those intelligence organizations that operate, among other things, an agency for the purposes of seduction and recruitment of intelligence sources, that the thing that amazes him every time is how much men - even those who are considered wise and experienced - are tempted to believe that a young and attractive woman will show interest in them that has no hidden motive behind it .
I am not claiming that such an affair cannot also exist under natural circumstances, but if you are a candidate for the presidency of the Bar Association and a young female lawyer throws herself at you (allegedly, of course), you must - certainly with a decades-long record as a criminal lawyer - be suspicious from the very first moment.
In case you didn't understand the reference, the reference is to Raviv Druker's program "The Source", which was broadcast yesterday on Network Channel 13.
We will soon return to the affair that began as an accusation of a sexual offense and may turn out to be a plot, but first of all it is impossible not to see it as a return to the discourse of October 6.
I mean, in the first quarter of an hour of the broadcast (and also five minutes after it ends), you feel like saying: What is Avi Hami now?
There is a war, there are abductees, there is a crisis in relations with the Americans, the evacuated residents of the north have nowhere to return, the country is falling apart - and you come to me now with something that brings up the oblivion of the days of the struggle against the legal coup?
That is, it could be that before October 7, such an investigation that allegedly hints (the word will return here several more times later, for obvious reasons, with the readers' forgiveness) about how a young and unrestrained woman decided (it will be emphasized again, all apparently) to eliminate a senior man, after not Granted to her on request - and perhaps even with the help of political parties (the investigation hinted at the possible involvement - for the millionth time, all apparently - of a judge and her spouse who holds a senior position in the prime minister's court) - would have stirred someone up.
Attorney Avi Hami. Even if there is an "attempted assassination" here for political reasons, it does not come out well from the story/screenshot, Network 13
Disturbing facts
Himi's interest in preserving what is left of his good name, instilling reasonable doubt in the hearts of anyone who was sure that he is a kind of sex pervert who habitually harasses, perhaps even imposes himself on women, as emerged from Ayala Hasson's exposure, is clear and understandable.
The problem is that even if we accept Hami's version of events, as it is supported by Drucker's investigation, we are left with disturbing facts: a
powerful chairman of one of the most powerful institutions in the Israeli public system - the Bar Association, a young, married man, who has a long-term affair with a female lawyer A young woman (Hila Yehezkel) is many years younger than him - and during that period, he recommends her to judge as a juvenile judge (according to him, this is how he acted towards dozens of other lawyers who approached him for such a recommendation). That is, there is at the very least a reason to make a mistake here even before approaching to examine possible criminal aspects to exist in the case.
You can understand why Hami feels that his world has destroyed him, you can understand why he cries out against the attempt to paint him as a sex offender, when he may have only "stumbled". Sex". And yet, Attorney Hami, you were recorded by a young woman with whom you had a working relationship, while you pleasure yourself in front of the screen.
Even if they accept your version of events in full, even if you are slandered, even if you are exposed in a combination of personal revenge on the part of the alleged victim, to a political interest designed to silence your voice as part of the protest.
You put a lump of butter on your head with your own hands - and now you want us to sympathize with the fact that drops of it got into your eyes, just because you were exposed to the sun, even if with malicious intent?
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Hana Hami, my father's wife/screenshot, network 13
Is this how judges are appointed in Israel?
Because what is more troubling: that the Prime Minister's Office or someone on its behalf (again, all apparently), leaks particularly disgusting material to a close journalist in order to eliminate someone who is beginning to emerge as a political problem, or - even if we accept the Himi-Drucker version in all its details: that an unrestrained woman who drives To extort, seemingly as a method, powerful men who are involved in working relationships with her, by documenting sexual relations with her, she was almost appointed (among other things on the recommendation of the chairman of the bar association) as a youth judge?
This is the main problem with the position of the one whose version of the affair the "source" investigation came to support: the faith that he is the victim who pays the heaviest personal price and not the boy who might stand before a judge who is not to be despised (and yes, I know you are tired of it already - that too, of course, apparently). After all, you are proud of the arduous path you took from Kiryat Shmona to the top of the legal world, you must have come across boys who were like you and took the wrong turn in life, if not from your personal memory, then at least from your professional resume as a senior criminal attorney.
If what's keeping you up at night now is your good name and not the fact that a boy who was pissed off could find himself facing the trial of someone you recommended for trial (let go now of the affair that your version was with full consent!), when it's clear, according to your own claim, even if In retrospect, that you were not endowed with the proper qualities, then you can understand why it is difficult to feel pity for you.
"crowd wisdom
Another problem is revealed in the flashback to the "wisdom of the crowd" moment in the investigation.
It happens when Drucker and Hami are standing in the street and a passer-by intervenes in the filming.
At first he is mistaken in thinking that Hami, whom he knows from TV, is Roman Zdorov's lawyer.
Then when he stands by his mistake, he interprets his doctrine according to which "a woman can bring down any man she wants".
It may be true, but we live in an era where 95% (even if I wasn't precise, I'm sure I didn't make a mistake in the prefix) of the victims of sexual offenses are women, most of the offenses are not reported, even fewer of these turn into complaints, and even fewer mature into indictments that end Conviction.
It is true that the words reflected the opinion of that passer-by only, but when it is presented as the "street" position, there is a very problematic, even terrible, message here, that a seasoned journalist like Drucker had to understand his destructive potential, just as Hami had to understand the potential for damage in running a system The relationship that ruined his brilliant legal career.
Attorney Avi Hami in the "Hamakor" filming, even if you were falsely accused, the non-criminal aspect of the affair is also serious enough/screenshot, Network 13
Summary phase
So what were we left with at the end of more than an hour of watching the investigation (which it should be noted is impressive in itself, given the scope of the material)?
First with the desire to close it, in the legal-police parlance, for lack of interest to the public.
Because as already written in the opening, the State of Israel is facing destruction and now I have to worry about the good name of the former chairman of the bar? The documentary.
Second - with a sad question about the way in which judges are appointed in Israel, when you also add to this the disclosure by "Haaretz" of the transcripts of the conversations between the chairman who preceded Lahimi, Efi Neve, and Eitan Orenstein, former president of the District Court in Tel Aviv, you get a terrible picture of The unbearable ease with which people in Israel rise to the throne of judgment.
Third with the already known fact Dana promotes - and still manages to amaze every time anew: the incredible ease with which brilliant men fall who did not know how to conquer their desire.
There will be those who will claim that this is what motivated them to be successful in the first place, but this is really already a topic for a completely different discussion, which will take place outside the field court where Ayala Hasson "convicted" Avi Himi as a sex offender and where Raviv Drucker "acquitted" him last night, as a victim of a false accusation.
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