Netanyahu's attorney presented evidence of correspondence between the prosecution’s key witness, former Walla CEO, and a number of public figures, including Lieberman
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May. 31, 2021 4:18 PM
Miriam Peretz and Isaac Herzog are two halves of the perfect president of Israel. The country’s top satire show, “Eretz Nehederet” (“A Wonderful Country”), hit on the idea in a parody of a debate featuring the final two candidates vying for the post.
While the actor portraying Herzog robotically rattled off his impressive qualifications, the actress playing Peretz couldn’t stop emoting about her deep affection for Israel and preaching to the country’s warring tribes to hug it out.
“You know, you two really complete each other,” the moderator noted, suggesting they run as a team
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and President Reuven Rivlin at the President s Residence in Jerusalem, September 25, 2019, when Rivlin tapped Netanyahu to form the next Israeli government. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90
Ilan Yeshua, the former CEO of the Walla news site, testified Wednesday during his cross-examination in the corruption trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his website had conducted a campaign on behalf of the premier aimed at preventing Reuven Rivlin from being elected president in 2014.
Questioned by Netanyahu’s lawyer Boaz Ben Tzur, Yeshua acknowledged that in addition to tilting the website’s coverage to favor Netanyahu in an alleged quid pro quo bribery deal, Walla had also tilted its coverage in favor of Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman.