Yair Netanyahu, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, has been ordered by the Netanya Magistrate’s Court to pay NIS 75,000 in damages and legal fees to his father’s former aide Nir Hefetz over privacy violations and violating a gag order.
Hefetz, who is a key state witness in a bribery, fraud and breach of trust case against the premier, sued the younger Netanyahu over a series of social media posts from 2020 in which he shared details about the police investigation into Hefetz, in violation of a gag order.
The court, in its ruling, asserts that the social media posts had “gotten to the root of the plaintiff’s private life in a way that was likely to harm him, endanger him as a state witness, and harm his family.”
It orders Netanyahu to pay him NIS 60,000 in damages and a further NIS 15,000 to cover legal fees.
The court’s decision comes after Netanyahu was ordered by a Tel Aviv District Court last month to pay ex-MK Stav Shaffir an additional NIS 7,500 in court fees for a libel case that had already required him to pay her NIS 70,000 in damages.
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