The Israeli Attorney General, Gali Baharav-Miara, along with State Attorney Amit Isman, instructed the police Thursday evening to initiate a probe into Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the Prime Minister, on suspicions of witness intimidation and hindering justice. The decision to launch the investigation came after Channel 12’s Uvda program presented evidence allegedly linking Mrs. Netanyahu to the protests held outside the homes of the prosecutor in her husband’s trial, Liat Ben-Ari, and key witness Hadas Klein.
Following the report, Prime Minister Netanyahu released a new video in which he strongly criticized the investigation and the media’s treatment of his wife. “Because the baseless charges against me are collapsing day by day in court and will collapse even more in the future. The leftists and the media have found a new target, they are mercilessly attacking my wife Sara, the support of my life,” Netanyahu stated.
In his video, Netanyahu took the opportunity to commend his wife for her work with children and bereaved families. “You won’t hear a single word of this, not even a single clarification, on the networks, which are in a state of panic because they are again trying to hurt her in order to hurt me, and they are also doing it on television shows, and there are no limits to the lies, no limits to the vile distortions, to taking things out of context, to fake news, to brainwashing, to relentless mind-engineering.”
Referring to the newly released investigation, Netanyahu expressed his disdain for the program’s approach: “They call it ‘Uvda’ (fact), but it is simply false propaganda, vile propaganda, and where trolls chase trolls.”
The Prime Minister continued his attack by addressing the accusations made against his wife: “Now there’s a new blood libel, as if my wife Sarah leaked state secrets about Nasrallah and all sorts of other absurd things. They repeat these despicable lies over and over again. They repeated it on the prime time news broadcast of Channel 12. What a shame. Just once I would like to see Channel 12, I would like to see the other poison channels do some kind of investigation into the left-wing camp. But don’t count on it. It simply won’t happen.”
He concluded by comparing the media’s treatment of his administration to that of the left-wing government, stating, “There was a left-wing government here for a year and a half with the Muslim Brotherhood, how many investigations were there? Not even one. Zero investigations into the left-wing government, zero investigations into a left-wing prime minister. On the contrary, what is happening on the poison channels is daily incitement, hour by hour, against the right-wing camp, against the charedi community, against the settlers. This is the real poison machine.”
{Matzav.com Israel}