Transportation Minister Miri Regev is threatening to sue Channel 13 reporter Raviv Drucker, as well as the news outlet itself, after it aired an investigation into her work practices last week that alleged that her office systematically gives preferential treatment to local officials who are also Likud power players.
In a warning letter to Channel 13 submitted by her lawyer, Regev claims that Yonatan Yehosef — the former Transportation Ministry employee who supplied Channel 13 with documents from her office — suffers from mental illness and is not of sound mind.
Further, she alleges that Yehosef falsified or even entirely created the documents he shared with Channel 13, and that she didn’t even know that some of them existed.
One of the documents she claims she had no knowledge of was the spreadsheet wherein towns and cities were sorted by color, with “green” cities” receiving favorable treatment, and “red” cities being actively ignored by the Transportation Ministry.
The second part of Channel 13’s investigation is set to air today.
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