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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) talks with attorney Micha Fettman (L) inside the court room as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020 (Ronen Zvulun/ Pool Photo via AP)
Lawyers for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu filed a lengthy official response Monday to the charge sheet against the premier, complaining that the corruption indictment includes “made-up” charges and refers to actions about which he was never questioned.
In a document spanning 81 pages and 667 paragraphs filed to the Jerusalem District Court, the defense team of nine lawyers argued that Netanyahu was questioned on only 10 percent of the more than 100 instances in which he allegedly sought to influence coverage of him on the Walla news site in an alleged bribery deal in Case 4000.
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Jan. 7, 2021
Israel’s Channel 13 News gave police unedited footage from a July demonstration against Benjamin Netanyahu that helped the police incriminate participants suspected of assaulting a policeman, and attacking the channel’s news crew.
The news company did not object to the police request, which was backed by a court order, even though the court gave it an opportunity to do so. The attorney for one of the suspects plans to file a complaint to the Press Council against Channel 13 for handing over the material.
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In December 2019, an Israeli man, Shimon Hayut, was sentenced to 15 months in prison after he was found guilty in conning European women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars using dating app Tinder. The 30-year-old served only five months of the sentence before he was released earlier this year due to COVID-19 prison measures in Israel.
Shimon Hayut, the infamous Israeli “Tinder swindler” who was convicted for conning European women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars on the dating app, allegedly received an early shot of the COVID-19 vaccine after pretending to be a health care worker, the Times of Israel reported, citing local TV network Channel 12.
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Police have asked the court to extend the suspects’ house arrest and to issue restraining orders to bar them from places where asylum seekers study.
In addition to the offenses they allegedly committed against asylum seekers and their children, Paz, Avrahaimi and Grantovsky were also accused of defacing the home of Supreme Court Justice Uzi Vogelman with graffiti and with protesting illegally outside the home of Supreme Court President Esther Hayut.
Police say that two weeks ago, Paz and Grantovsky invaded the preschool, with Paz filming the children from behind a locked gate without the consent of the director and the children’s parents.
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In the course of the chase, the police officers’ car collided with the car in which Sandak was riding, causing it to overturn. Sandak, who lived in the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin, died at the scene. The maximum penalty for reckless homicide is 12 years in prison. Leaving the scene of an accident carried a maximum prison term of nine years.
Police investigators said Sandak was left trapped under the car for at least 10 minutes because his friends had refused to tell the police at the scene if anyone else had been in the car. One of the two, 18-year-old Zvi Yehuda Katan of Jerusalem, was released to house arrest on Monday by the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court. The detention of the other suspect, Efraim Gozlan, 19, of Kochav Yaakov, was extended until Wednesday.