The highlight of another evening with Ofira and Barco, was, (why not?), The retired judge and star of the hour, the retired judge Etty Kreif. If in an interview with Omri Assenheim I thought more in my innocence that this is a woman who wants to share what is on her heart and give her version of the ugly affair for the first time. Even if I disagreed with her words, I understood the desire to talk and share, and to present her narrative in the story, even if along the way she closed accounts with those men who did not stand by her side in the moment of truth.
But, since that interview, Kreif has been rushing forward and not in a positive sense. She squeezes her minutes of glory to the end and is everywhere with camera lenses. Her lust to be on screen at all costs – embarrassing, and fatally damages her image, even more so than the affair in question – “sex for appointment”.
I did not find much difference between the interview that Kreif gave to journalist Omri Assenheim and the interview last night. The same lady with the same overcoat appeared before us with the same arguments, but this time she only mentioned another tier to the affair that was then called “sex in exchange for an appointment.” This time she reasoned that the prosecution and the police grabbed her by the neck and ended her career, for the simple reason that they wanted to sabotage the political appointment of Effie Naveh. In other words – the prosecution was looking for Effi Naveh and she was the direct conduit.
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In Assenheim, sharp and sharp questions were asked, while in Ofira and Barco, who promised that it was going to be stormy in the studio, the questions were superficial, not easy enough and did not go down to the beam. Therefore, they simply did not innovate anything.
For example, how could it not have occurred to them to remind Kreif that she herself admitted that she had called Effie Naveh and happily informed him that she had been chosen to be a judge, and he replied that he had arranged it himself?
Such a statement certainly makes us doubt the eligibility of the appointment, since it smells of a conflict of interest.
It really does not detract from Krief’s campaign as a judge. I fully believe she was a good judge, but the facts speak for themselves: during her interrogation she imitated text messages from her cell phone, which could perhaps have been used as evidence – disrupting interrogation proceedings, especially by the law enforcement, who knew what was forbidden and what was allowed. There was no small stumble here as she tries to present, and what to do about stumbling blocks being paid for.
Who among us has not paid at one point or another in his life for mistakes he has made? To blame others or in the case before us, the judicial system, which acted in the case of Krif according to the law, it is not appropriate, especially since Krif itself still comes from the same system. According to her, she imitated the messages, which could perhaps have been used as evidence, because she did not want to be nasty and harm those senior officials with whom she was in one relationship or another.
How did it not occur to the interviewers, and especially to Barko, who dared to be more militant in his questions than Ofira, to point out to Kreif such a simple fact – that if there was nothing suspicious in those messages that could harm those executives, why bother deleting them while investigating Are you doing?
And if Kreif did not want to be disgusting towards those senior officials, how could her kindness and consideration not be expressed when she revealed the words of Efi Naveh, who bragged to her that he was the one behind the decision to appoint her judge? After all, it was a blow under the belt, in the soft belly of Naveh, who was exposed here in his unflattering nudity, precisely by the one he had helped so much. How did it not occur to them to ask her about the closure of the accounts even with retired Minister Moshe Kahlon that Kreif had revealed the intimate conversations between the two.
Ofira and Berkowitz (Photo: Keshet Screenshot 12)From all this complex story about its various angles, Ofira drew an unequivocal conclusion that Krief came out as a “sucker.” And why? For while she was deprived of the customs duty because of some so-called innocent erasures in the mobile, in order not to overthrow those senior officials, they in turn did not repay her properly and did not stand by her side in her time of distress.
Wow, a conclusion not really enlightening.
Apparently, those senior officials did not help her because they did not want their name included in the affair, which did not exactly exude aromas of chastity. And as for the suckers? Kreif herself admitted that she stumbled, so what is all the beautification and empathy about? Ofira, why not touch on the matter, hit this hot iron, and ask Kreif directly, does she not regret today that she has activated her relationship with Naveh, in order to help her advance her aspirations, justified as they may be?
Apparently, Kreif would answer, as she did in an interview with Assenheim, that everyone is making connections and that this is legitimate and normal. But then you could ask the obvious question that every child would ask: “Does it justify acting improperly, because others act that way too?” And even if it is legitimate to make connections, it is certainly not legitimate to make connections to a position that requires clean hands as a judge in Israel.
Bottom line, Etty Kreif is smart and sharp-tongued, a kind of stray cat, and yesterday she spun on her little finger the two facilitators who were pretty dumbfounded at the sophisticated babbling. Eyal even summed up the interview by complimenting her that he heard she was a good judge. However, a judge requires not only wisdom, talent and cleverness, but also the most meticulous hand cleaning, polished, rubbed and cleaned to a pure and pure whiteness, and once there is a suspicion that not all stains have gone down, she is forced to pay the price. Se la vi.