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Get email notification for articles from Netael Bandel Follow May. 25, 2021 8:46 PM Former Labor Party chairman Isaac Herzog, who is now the leading candidate as Israel s next president, in effect dictated a headline to Ilan Yeshua, the CEO of the Walla news website at the time, who is now a key prosecution witness in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bribery trial. Herzog s request for a headline came after Herzog won an internal party battle at the 2013 Labor Party convention. Under cross-examination of Yeshua Tuesday in Jerusalem District Court, lawyers for Shaul Elovitch and his wife, Iris, produced a 2013 message from Herzog to Yeshua: “I’d be happy if the headline is ‘Crushing victory for Herzog in spite of the attacks on him,’” the Labor leader wrote. “I need to demonstrate control and exclusion of the bitch,” referring to former Labor Party leader and MK Shelly Yacimovich. ....
0 shares Former CEO of the Walla news site Ilan Yeshua arrives for his cross-examination in the graft trial against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Shaul Elovitch, the former owner of the Walla news site, said several years ago that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides were behaving like “criminals” when intervening in the outlet’s coverage, former Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua testified Monday during his cross-examination in the graft trial against the premier. Yeshua is a key witness in Case 4000, in which Netanyahu is alleged to have abused his powers when he served as both premier and communications minister from 2014 to 2017, in order to illicitly and lucratively affect the business interests of Bezeq’s controlling shareholder, Elovitch. In exchange, Elovitch allegedly provided Netanyahu and his family with positive coverage on Walla. ....
Elovitch, the controlling shareholder of media giant Bezeq, which owns Walla, is charged with bribery, obstruction of justice and obstruction of the investigation in the case against Netanyahu ....