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Shlomit Barnea Farago and a Jacuzzi (illustration). Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening a lawsuit against the legal counsel of the Prime Minister’s Office Shlomit Barnea Farago, Kan 11 News reported Saturday night. Netanyahu’s attorney sent a letter of warning before taking action to Farago following the publication of allegations that Netanyahu used at his private home money that had been intended for use in the prime minister’s office. The police fraud investigation unit recently launched an investigation into the possibility of illegal use of the budget of the prime m...

Prime Minister's Office Legal Adviser Shlomit Barnea Farago attends an award ceremony in Jerusalem on December 4, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Former premier Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to sue the legal adviser at the Prime Minister’s Office after media reports about suspicions that state funds were used for renovations at his private home in Caesarea, according to Israel’s public broadcaster. Yossi Cohen, a lawyer for the Netanyahu family, sent a demand letter to Shlomit Barnea Farago warning legal proceedings could be initiated against her, Kan news reported Saturday. The letter...

Public Security Minister Amir Ohana at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on March 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) A judge in the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court dismissed on Tuesday a lawsuit filed by an ex-aide to former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu against Amir Ohana, which claimed the then-minister violated a gag order. According to Channel 12 news, the judge rejected the lawsuit filed in late 2019 by Nir Hefetz against Ohana — who was at the time the public security minister and is currently an MK — because Ohana was protected by parliamentary ...

Get email notification for articles from Netael Bandel Follow Jun. 16, 2021 1:15 AM Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s defense attorney sought to show in court Tuesday that the owners of the Walla news site did not tilt coverage in Netanyahu’s favor to please him, but only to balance out what they lamented as the site’s left-leaning slant. Attorney Boaz Ben Zur took this line as he continued his cross-examination of the prosecution’s key witness, Ilan Yeshua, former CEO of Walla, in the Jerusalem District Court. In this case, Netanyahu is charged with giving Shaul Elovitch, t...

Netanyahu's lawyers also continued their strategy from the previous day, arguing that a number of stories that appeared on the Walla website during the 2013 election campaign could be interpreted as anti-Netanyahu