Jewish Home MK Yinon Magal has been summoned for a meeting with party leader Naftali Bennett, after two women came forward earlier in the day to say that he made sexual advances to them while they worked under him at Walla news.
Magal responded to the charges, made on Facebook, by writing on the social media site that there are things he did before he was a lawmaker that he would rather not recall.
Jewish Home MK Yinon Magal at the president’s residence in Jerusalem on March 22, 2015 (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)
“I apologize and request forgiveness from anyone I hurt,” he writes. “That being said, I would expect from a friend that was hurt by me to tell me so and not to turn to shaming on social media.”
In response, Ariel Waysman, the husband of one of the women who came forward, writes on Magal’s Facebook wall: “I would expect a Jewish Home MK not to fuck my wife.”
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