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Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate s Court in Tel Aviv on March 10, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
Yair Netanyahu, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, appeared at Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday seeking to overturn a verdict ordering him to pay hundreds of thousands of shekels in damages to a journalist who sued him for libel.
Netanyahu claims the ruling against him was in bad faith as he never received the court notification about the libel lawsuit filed by former Walla news site editor Avi Alkalay.
Last March, the court ordered Yair Netanyahu to pay NIS 286,000 ($71,000) to Alkalay, a witness in the most serious of the three corruption cases against the prime minister, over posts the younger Netanyahu shared on social media claiming the editor was “a mole” working with the state prosecution against his father. Because Netanyahu never filed a statement of defense,
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