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Jun. 16, 2021 1:15 AM
Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s defense attorney sought to show in court Tuesday that the owners of the Walla news site did not tilt coverage in Netanyahu’s favor to please him, but only to balance out what they lamented as the site’s left-leaning slant.
Attorney Boaz Ben Zur took this line as he continued his cross-examination of the prosecution’s key witness, Ilan Yeshua, former CEO of Walla, in the Jerusalem District Court. In this case, Netanyahu is charged with giving Shaul Elovitch, then controlling shareholder in Bezeq, hundreds of millions of shekels in regulatory benefits in return for positive coverage on Walla, which was owned by Bezeq. It’s legitimate for a newspaper owner to set editorial policy, but this policy must be made public, Yeshua stated during his cross-examination.
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