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Follow May. 11, 2021 The corruption trial of Benjamin Netanyahu resumed Tuesday, with the cross-examination of a former CEO of a leading Israeli news site over allegations of biased coverage in favor of the prime minister. Jack Chen, the lawyer representing former Bezeq owner Shaul Elovitch, is interrogating former Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua, a key witness in Case 4000, the Bezeq-Walla bribery case. Yeshua testified on Monday that he "unequivocally" did not believe that skewing coverage to favor Netanyahu was criminal at first. He told the court on Monday he changed his mind after a meeting in l...

Follow May. 10, 2021 Former Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua testified Monday in Jerusalem District Court that at first, that he did not believe that skewing coverage to favor Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was criminal in nature. During his cross-examination in the Bezeq-Walla bribery trial, Yeshua said he changed his mind after a meeting in 2016 when he was asked by Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder in Bezeq, which owned Walla, to destroy evidence of the tendentious reporting. He referred to that encounter as the “obstruction meeting.” “Unequivocally, until the obstruction meeting, ...