Interesting vignette this morning in state witness Hefetz’s testimony. He was sent by Netanyahu for a meeting with Rupert Murdoch and one of his sons in London to discuss Murdoch setting up a pro-Bibi television news channel in Israel. Murdoch apparently agreed to go along. >
Another potential investor in the news channel who Hefetz met on Netanyahu’s behalf was Larry Ellison who agreed to put money in. The presentation to investors had been prepared by Netanyahu personally and he’d already selected one of his toady “journalists” to be the editor. >
This bit of the testimony isn’t material to the charges against Netanyahu but the fact that as a serving prime minister he was busy trying to set up a news-channel that would serve him is further proof of how much favourable media coverage was crucial (could be used to bribe) him
BTW, the “journalist” Netanyahu hand-picked to edit his news-channel had zero experience in television but he had written a book titled “How Netanyahu Made Israel an Empire”
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