The judges in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s corruption trial order state prosecutors to give his defense team more investigatory materials from the phone of former Walla news CEO Ilan Yeshua, a key witnesses in one of the cases against the premier.
“There are grounds for the defense’s claim that the investigatory materials sent to it were partial,” the Jerusalem District Court judges write in their decision. “There is no dispute that this state of affairs must be fixed as soon as possible.”
As part of their ruling, the judges authorize another search of Yeshua’s phone for any conservations with politicians, businessmen and others concerning his involvement in news coverage at Walla.
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Jun. 10, 2021 12:39 AM
Judges in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial accepted a request from his defense and ordered prosecutors to search the cellphone of Ilan Yeshua, former CEO of the Walla news website and central witness in the Bezeq-Walla bribery case.
Prosecutors were told Wednesday to locate all the relevant material concerning Yeshua’s involvement in the coverage on the website. Prosecutors are to pass on all the relevant materials to Netanyahu’s lawyers after the search. It is expected that the prosecution will find further material, and this will mean Yeshua’s testimony will take even longer.
Netanyahu's lawyers also continued their strategy from the previous day, arguing that a number of stories that appeared on the Walla website during the 2013 election campaign could be interpreted as anti-Netanyahu