Channel 10 demands Netanyahu hand over Adelson calls within days

The Channel 10 television channel and investigative journalist Raviv Drucker warn they will file a contempt of court appeal against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he does not hand over records of his phone conversations with US-Israeli billionaire Sheldon Adelson within a few days.

The warning comes after Netanyahu appealed today a two-week-old ruling by the High Court of Justice forcing him to reveal details about his conversations Adelson and former Israel Hayom editor, saying the request for the information from Drucker and Channel 10 fell under the purview of the Freedom of Information Act.

“There’s no [court-ordered] delay in implementing [the ruling], so if the information is not handed over in the coming days we will be forced to ask the court to launch contempt proceedings,” an attorney for Channel 10 says.

Netanyahu is under investigation for possible criminal activities linked to conversations he had with Noni Mozes, the publisher of Yedioth Aharonoth, during which he was recorded offering to act to limit the distribution of rival paper Israel Hayom, which backs him, in exchange for more favorable coverage from Mozes’s paper.