former prime minister, Naftali Bennettthis evening (Tuesday) harshly attacked Channel 14 in a post on Facebook following an interview broadcast this morning with Rabbi Yosef Mizrahi who was sued by him for one million shekels.
“But what is the lawsuit about? Not about criticism, but about the fact that Rabbi Mizrahi spread widely as if my mother, Myrna Lea Bennett nee Lefkowitz, is a gentile. Here is part of what my wonderful and strong mother wrote to me and my brother after watching this interview right now: ‘I am broken. The parents Mine in the sky are crying right now’. And this channel dares to call the lawsuit ‘gagging’. Shameful. Gagging? What do you think these lawsuits are about, for God’s sake? About the distribution to hundreds of thousands of people that my mother and I are supposedly Christians. Me and Gilat are supposedly divorced or I’m hitting her . that I supposedly pocketed 50 million NIS. For the freedom to spread shocking lies are you fighting?”, he wrote at the beginning of his words.
According to him, “There is a terrible poison machine that tirelessly spreads lies and poison, and this machine endangers us all. Now there are those who are raising money to protect these people in the name of ‘freedom of speech,’ and Channel 14 is mind-engineering as if this is what it is all about. Who are the people donating money from their pockets to protect whom Who spreads such shocking lies?! I won’t stop.”
At the end, Bennett stated that he would continue to sue the “poison manufacturers and their agents” and the money, according to him, would be transferred to the IDF soldiers and their families. “I am not fighting for myself, but for everyone who wants a better State of Israel. And for my good mother. And for her parents, grandfather Israel and grandmother Michal, their memory is a blessing, good Jews who lost their families in the Holocaust, and cannot repay.”