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Shaham also ordered the PMO to pay Haaretz and Hatzlaha legal expenses of 10,000 shekels ($3,000) each.
In his ruling, Shaham criticized the PMO for its refusal to provide the schedules, saying that it was in the public interest. The amount of time Netanyahu devotes to the legal proceedings against him “is a matter in which a rousing and active public debate is being conducted,” said Shaham. “Even assuming that it is not possible to know how much of all the prime minister’s meetings with his lawyers dealt with his trial, the public interest in releasing the information remains in force.”
Key witness resumes testimony in Netanyahu corruption trial
April 16, 2021
(JNS) The former CEO of Israel’s Walla news website on Tuesday resumed his testimony before the Jerusalem District Court in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial.
Ilan Yeshua is a key witness for the prosecution in Case 4000, in which Netanyahu is accused of bribery, fraud and breach of trust for allegedly promoting regulatory decisions that favored the interests of Shaul Elovitch, then the controlling shareholder of telecom giant Bezeq, in exchange for positive coverage in Walla, which was then owned by Bezeq.
The case against Netanyahu is headed by prose.