Another hearing took place today as part of the defamation lawsuit filed by Dana Kashdi, a blue-and-white activist, against Yair Netanyahu, alleging that he published defamation about her, causing her to undergo “group and public sexual harassment,” after hinting that she had contact with Bnei Gantz.
The judge tried to bridge the gap between the parties and it failed. As part of the proposed settlement (which was rejected by the parties), they apologized and the court will be allowed to award costs up to 50,000. Now the parties need to file affidavits and set a date for a new hearing.
During the hearing in the Kfar Saba Magistrate’s Court, Yair Netanyahu burst out and said: “Why should I pay her a shekel, after she called me a fruit in despair. I feel that my money is allowed in court.”
He testified: “I should not count every tweet as a doctoral dissertation. I was ridiculed by her arguments as to why Ganz should be prime minister. Her father wrote a slanderous post about me calling for murder and rape of me and my mother. If this story bothers her, why is she being interviewed? “Everywhere you look today, the tide of protectionist sentiment is flowing.
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As you may recall, the lawsuit in the amount of NIS half a million was filed by Kashdi in August 2020. The statement of claim, filed through attorney Ron Lewintel and plaintiff’s father, Adv. A hint that the two are having a romantic relationship.
Last year, Netanyahu was ordered to pay half a million shekels to Kashdi, after failing to file a letter of defense in court. The ruling was given in the absence of a letter of defense under the high probability that Netanyahu will request the revocation of the ruling and a letter of defense will be filed on his behalf later. Indeed, about three months later, Netanyahu filed a letter of defense as required.
In the defense letter, the former prime minister’s son claims that the lawsuit filed against him is “an unscrupulous and forced attempt by the plaintiff to invent an imaginary cause of action and to bind her name in the name of Defense Minister Bnei Gantz, even at the cost of defaming herself.” His lawyers further claim that he “never created a sexual, intimate and marital relationship between the plaintiff and Ganz and did not intend to create such a relationship.”