The Supreme Court yesterday rejected the appeal request of Yair Netanyahu on the verdict in the defamation suit, and stated that the son of the prime minister-designate will compensate the journalist Avi Alkalai with NIS 250,000, because he did not file a statement of defense in time. Attorney Ron Levinthalrepresenting the prosecutor Avi Alkalai, spoke this morning (Friday) with Guy Peleg in103FM and responded to the court’s decision.
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“Sometimes the retweet is stronger than the original,” he stated at the beginning of the conversation, and mentioned the chain of events that led to the verdict: “There is an initial publication that is brought up, such a ridiculous conspiracy, that is brought up a little before Benjamin Netanyahu is invited to a hearing before submitting case 4000 that talks about one of the witnesses, Alkalai who was a senior editor at Vala, and the claim is that he was planted by Keren, who was together with someone else who is related to the Ministry of Communications and they were planted inside.”
“He was summoned to the investigations, evaded, ran away from the investigations, falsified messages, and worked to implicate Netanyahu. This is not true, there was another person with a similar name, it is not him, he is not planted, in short, a whole story that is not entirely true,” he added.
When asked if it was a technical victory in the trial, he replied: “It’s not that it wasn’t investigated. In one of the hearings in which Yair sought to appeal, he was questioned at length on the stand and he said, ‘I didn’t read the material before I passed it on. I wrote it and shared it without reading it at all.'”
“This does not absolve me of responsibility,” Pelag noted in response to his words, and Attorney Levintel agreed with his statement: “Certainly. He has no defense arguments, even if he had been given the opportunity to write a statement of defense. On the other hand, the same guy he relied on wrote ‘I was wrong, it’s a mistake’. There is no doubt that the advertisement is false, the original advertiser claims it. I don’t even think it’s negligence, three years ago when the lawsuit started there was a time when Yair Netanyahu wrote ‘The right and the left are against people without limit’ and when they tried to sue him they found out that it was impossible to come up with lawsuits for him.”
Regarding lawyer Nizari’s statement in light of the lawsuit, he clarified: “This statement of his was written yesterday or yesterday to put pressure on the Supreme Court judge before the final appeal, and I think it is really inappropriate, it was echoed by the future prime minister. What happened at the same time The judge has already written the verdict.”
“This retort, which was perhaps intended to tell the judge to ‘pay attention’, did not achieve its goal in the end because at the same time he wrote the final verdict yesterday. There is someone here who received twice as much time as any other citizen. Regarding sharing, I would like to mention that both Yair Netanyahu and Rash The government itself is suing other people for sharing. I received a warning letter to my client for sharing over a million NIS,” he noted.
At the end, Peleg asked to discuss with the lawyer Levintel about Netanyahu’s verdict against Olmert. The lawyer admitted that “I think Olmert crossed the line and said things that should not be said, like Yair Netanyahu who was offered to come down from the tree and pay 5 thousand NIS and finish the matter.”
“In the secret of my heart, I think that Olmert is having fun with this lawsuit, is indifferent to the outcome and enjoys the very conduct of the proceedings, both he and his lawyer. I fear that because the things are said as if they were serious and not as a metaphor, as if as a fact and there is no proof of the fact, I fear for Olmert that compensation will be awarded here.” specified
Assisted in the preparation of the article: Shani Romano 103FM