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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.”
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Feb. 3, 2021
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, there hasn’t been a single indictment against organizers of illegal gatherings, despite a new procedure that should make this easier. Police have launched hundreds of criminal investigations along these lines, but closed most of the cases, transferring less than a third of them to the State Prosecutor s Office.
The organizers of gatherings can be charged with “an act liable to transmit a disease,” but the sole indictment filed for this violation was against a young man who attended a party after he’d been diagnosed with COVID-19.
According to the new procedure established by the State Prosecutor s Office that went into effect on December 31, a criminal investigation for spreading disease can be opened in three instances: If a person organized a gathering of more than 300 people in an open area or more than 150 in a closed space; if a person diagnosed with COVID-19 violated his or her quarantine; or if a p