A former senior news editor at the Walla news site testifies that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received special treatment from the editorial board.
“No other person being covered by Walla received the same treatment that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his family did,” says Avner Borohov, during testimony at Netanyahu’s corruption trial.
“It was an anomaly by any standard, systematic. An editor-in-chief could assign something, but there was always a discussion about it. Here, we were just told ‘because you have to,’ without taking into account professional considerations,” he says.
Netanyahu is on trial in three corruption cases.
Case 4000 involves suspicions that Shaul Elovitch, the majority shareholder of Bezeq telecommunications company, ordered the Walla news site, which he owned, to grant positive coverage to Netanyahu and his family in exchange for the prime minister advancing regulations benefiting Elovitch.
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