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Thursday, October 16, 2025
Former party activist ordered to pay Avigdor Liberman NIS 200,000 over claim he ordered hit on senior cop
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
The Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court orders former Yisrael Beytenu activist Yossi Kamisa to pay party chairman Avigdor Liberman NIS 200,000 ($60,000) in damages for defamation over a statement he made in 2022 claiming that Liberman had offered him $100,000 to kill a police superintendent.
Kamisa wrote on social media in 2022 that Liberman made the offer to him 20 years ago. Liberman emphatically denied the claim and alleged it was orchestrated by then-opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu to smear him ahead of that year’s November 1 elections.
Kamisa also claimed that Liberman had operated a Jericho casino whose proceeds benefited terror organizations, and that he’d had secret business dealings in Congo.
“The truth is stronger than any lie. Even when there are those who try to run campaigns of slander and blood libels, in the end justice is revealed,” Liberman says following the ruling.
The Times of Israel Community.