This evening will be broadcast on ‘Keshet 12’ in the ‘Ovda’ program, a first and exclusive interview with the former Attorney General, Avichai Mandelblit. For that Ilana Dayan She spoke this morning (Thursday) with Nissim Mashal and Guy Peleg on 103FM and shared details from the interview. She also shared what she thought about Netanyahu’s trial and the plea deal that did not come to fruition.
At the beginning of the conversation, Dayan said: “I think the title relates to a question that I ask more than once – if he thinks that Netanyahu is now giving impetus to this reform because of the trial that is being conducted against him, and I think it is worthwhile, worthwhile and advisable to wait for Mandeblit’s answer on this matter. He ties things together Among other things, when he asks and says that everyone should ask the question why exactly now Levin was appointed to the position, and above all he doesn’t choose words, doesn’t see eye to eye. He doesn’t press the brakes when he talks about this thing that is happening around us right now.”
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“The Mandelblit we know, the measured and measured man, who speaks in very, very measured and quiet words is not the man you will see tonight. He is almost terrified, you could say, of what is happening around him, he comes to speak with all the baggage, the experience and the event that he was also a part of. This is not someone who warns Against a regime revolution and the end of democracy, this is the man who signed the indictment against Netanyahu at the end of 2019. To a certain extent, this is the man who caused this event and he also takes us to these dramatic moments during his tenure.”
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Does he strike at sin?
“No, he really doesn’t attack sin. He makes the distinction between the Netanyahu of 2021 and the Netanyahu of 2023. He thinks that the conflict of interest agreement was supposed to, he says that Netanyahu never signed it, was supposed to protect Netanyahu from a decision on Nebtsura. About what What is happening now is giving a very strong support to the ombudsman, and again, also in this context it is worth listening to what Mandelblit answers to the question of whether confinement is an option. When you think about it, when he talks like that, in the context of what is happening today in the government led by the man who appointed him, every time I came back to this relationship with him, which is amazing. One of the questions I ask him is, ‘If Netanyahu asked you to work with him today,’ he said, ‘I would agree.’ He breaks his silence with a loud voice.”
Afterwards, she told what Mandelblit’s opinion was about the plea deal with Netanyahu, which ultimately did not come to fruition: “You cannot miss his feeling of missing out on that moment that was perhaps a moment of exit that will not be repeated, you cannot miss it. What is no less interesting is to hear the reasons, when he describes the reason why, and it seemed for a moment that it was almost going to happen, and when you hear Mandelblit talk about what happened there in those days, then yes, you’re right, you can’t miss it.”
At the end, Dayan was asked whether the Attorney General was following the Netanyahu trial. According to her, “He follows the trial, everything that happens there interests him. He did read almost every word of the testimony, he also has an amazing memory and is familiar with the details. Another fascinating point in the conversation concerns the day he makes a commitment to Netanyahu and informs him that he has decided to open a criminal investigation against him”.
“When you connect all these points on the timeline, what is the connection between all of this and the evil spirit that is blowing around us now, and why the same Netanyahu who talked about the independence of the judicial system is now doing the opposite, Mandelblit is on the seam between the two Netanyahus. I ask him, ‘Is it possible that Israeli democracy It is not ripe to prosecute a sitting prime minister’, and one of the things he says to me is ‘the opposite. If I had not filed the indictment then there would be no Israeli democracy,'” she added.
Assisted in the preparation of the article: Shani Romano 103fm