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"Is it working? Well, with your permission Prime Minister"

"according to the rules, I am informing you that you are being investigated."

"You don't have to say anything"

"but everything that you say is documented"

"and may be used against you in a court of law."

"Nothing concentrates the mind like the prospect of being hanged."

"With Netanyahu, nothing concentrates his mind"

more than the sound of the prison gate

slammed behind his back.

"You're asking me delusional questions"

"trying to get to the bottom of my cup and ashtray."

"This is preposterous and insane."

"You're trying to incriminate the prime minister on nonsense."

So everything that he has done over the last five years

was so focused

on that sound of the gate

potentially slammed behind his back.

"To fully understand the chaos in the region"

"one has to look back at the prime minister's legal predicament."

"The corruption trial became a dominant factor"

"in his decision making."

The engine is the corruption cases.

"And it all started with the fact that the prime minister does not respect the law."

Anyone that dared to touch Mr. Netanyahu is doomed.

"And after the catastrophe of the 7th of October"

"the war became another instrument to stay in power."

"He survive in a state of war."

"He survive in a state of instability."

He survive when we fight each other.

He survive when our enemies fight each other.

"A forever war is beneficial to Netanyahu."

This makes people feel like they are always in danger

like they always need him.

"There's always some huge threat..."

"I think that that helps him remain prime minister."

It's not a cover-up.

It's not that he tried to kill evidence.

He tried to kill the system!

"He took all of us hostage in this trial."

"I am a political analyst for Channel 13 in the news company."

"We did hundreds of investigative reports over the years on everybody..."

"stories about Prime Minister Sharon"

"stories about Prime Minister Barak"

"and I did a lot of the stories of Prime Minister Netanyahu."

"Do the Netanyahus know who you are?"

Do the Netanyahus... Yes, they know.

"The Netanyahus family and Mr. Netanyahu"

"single me out as one of their worst enemies for the last 15 years or so."

"He sued me three times."

"But he received zero. There was no case."

"It got to the point that they demanded for my channel to fire me..."

or at least get me out to a long, long vacation...

if they want to get something from the government.

It was me or the channel.

"Netanyahu, over the years, had many corruption cases."

"In 1997"

"he was investigated for appointing the attorney general"

"in some corrupt deal."

"Later, he was interrogated for getting gifts."

"Also, one case that starts from investigative reports that I made"

"it's about the submarines deal that Israel has with Germany."

"But he was never prosecuted."

When you do something wrong and you get away with it

once and twice and three times, and 10 times and 20 times

you're beginning to think that you are immune

that nothing will touch you.

"So it wasn't long before Netanyahu was into trouble, again."

"A few rules, your honor the prime minister"

"and then we will continue the investigation."

"Just so I understand, these are the suspicions that you raise"

"in this specific investigation or in any investigation?"

- "In this investigation." - "But there could be other investigations?"

"That's correct."

The police, because it was a prime minister investigation

and they knew that it will be very high profile

they investigated everybody.

"I mean hundreds of people."

"Some of the witnesses were interrogated twice"

"three times, four times."

"You have a rare opportunity"

"to see the most powerful people "in Israel"

"in interrogation rooms"

"dealing with questions that were never been asked."

"What did you give? What did you get?"

"How many times you met him?"

And you see people in the most tense part of their life.

"We always pay when we go out with them."

"Why do you always pay?"

"Ask them."

"All of Bibi's friends are rich."

"So that's the essence of your friendship? Money?"

"What can I say? If this comes out, I'm dead."

"Get me a Cohiba Behike cigar."

"That's what he asked for?"

- "$1100 US for a box of ten." - "Wow."

"I'll give you whatever you want, I just don't know..."

- "Something criminal you mean?" - "We're reviewing criminal activity."

"There was a whole industry, that until today..."

"An industry of what?"

"An industry of high value gifts that you can't even imagine."

"From whom to whom?"

"Without specifying which gifts at which time periods."

"From super wealthy millionaires to Sara and Bibi."

"Netanyahu, he keeps around him"

"almost in every part in the world"

"someone like a sugar daddy."

Everything you need that was not supported by the country

he will do it for you.

But when those guys has interest in Israel...

business interests or some other interest...

then it became very, very problematic.

"Our first question for you is whether you, or any of your family members"

"have received any gifts or favors from wealthy businessmen in the last decade."

"If I have received any gifts?"

"I received things from close friends"

"from close acquaintances like cigars and things like that."

"But only from close friends. That's not an illegal gift."

"From what I've been told."

"Please tell us, who are those close friends? Those you define as close friends."

- "And what did you get from them?" - "Very close friends..."

"that I have known for many years"

"I have quite a few of those."

"The question is who?"

"If you wanted to make a movie about a fabulously-wealthy Israeli entrepreneur"

"who strikes it rich in Hollywood"

"after a successful career as an international arms dealer"

"and undercover operative for his government"

"well, there's only one person to produce it..."

"Arnon Milchan."

"It's his life story."

"Arnon Milchan, it's a..."

it's extraordinary story.

"Arnon Milchan is an Israeli guy"

"who rise to fame by becoming a Hollywood producer."

Congratulations.

"He produced some of the biggest hits and even won Oscars."

"And he became a tycoon."

Noguchi, Gauguin.

Blue period, Picasso.

"He's based in the US, but he always kept a really good contacts in Israel..."

mostly and especially with the prime minister.

"Everybody knows that if you want to speak with the prime minister, go to Arnon."

"If you need something from the prime minister, go to Arnon."

"This relationship... it's worth a lot."

"Why can't the prime minister buy things for himself?"

"Ask him!"

"I'm asking you, because you were the one asked to buy it."

"Because when he asks..."

"and he's the prime minister... How do you say it? I need to help the country."

"How is it helping the country?"

"Is it easier to run a country with a bottle of champagne?"

"Look..."

"If you wouldn't have given him the gifts, would you..."

"I give gifts, so what?"

"For me..."

"It's not the end of the world."

"It doesn't impact my financial life."

"Did you give other gifts..."

"To other politicians? Like you did to Netanyahu?"

"The answer is no."

This case... the facts are really...

kind of simple.

"The prime minister and his wife, Sara"

"were getting gifts worth a quarter of million dollars."

"They really liked the good life."

And on the other side

"Netanyahu did so many favors for Arnon Milchan."

Some people think what Arnon Milchan really did was bribe.

He was bribing the prime minister and this was the allegation.

Government officials are not allowed to take gifts, period.

Period! This is corruption.

"And we sent a president, a minister of finance..."

We sent them all to prison for violating that principle...

that nobody is above the law.

"The previous prime minister, Mr. Olmert"

"he was investigated for corrupt deals"

"that were much, much less than the state indicted Netanyahu for."

"And was sent to jail."

"So it's not something vague for Netanyahu."

I'm sure he has a real fear that in the end...

he will send to jail.

He might be 80 years old when it will happen

but it still can happen.

"There is a whole industry trying to incriminate me"

"the public, and the media"

"they're working together to incriminate me."

"I didn't know it before, but I know it now."

"The media creates chaos."

"Oh, the indulgence of the Netanyahu couple, living the life of emperors."

"This is nonsense..."

"It starts with a flaw of character."

"It's his mindset..."

"I deserve it and I can get away with it."

"And it seemed to escalate with the years."

"It mushroomed into something much more comprehensive."

"Does the sum seem reasonable to you?"

"I don't know. I can't tell you if it is reasonable or not."

- "You don't know?" - "No."

"As a gift, is it a lot or a little?"

"If it was given all at once, I guess it's not small."

"But if it was spread out over the years..."

"Sir, this is valued at tens of thousands of shekels each year."

"I'm telling you what... I didn't check, I didn't add it all up."

"Apologies, I'm a bit..."

"It's okay!"

"Impatient because it's pissing me off."

"The whole situation of us asking you questions?"

"The lengths to which Bibi has dragged me."

"That man's ruined my life."

"He knows I work hard. This is a tough job."

"And he says, 'if I can sweeten the life of my brother, who serves the state of Israel'"

"'when the public is critical'"

"'and when he's being pursued by the media and the police'."

"He said, 'Maybe to give him some joy in his life, I'll send him some cigars'."

"So this is a crime? How terrible!"

"I was Arnon's personal assistant"

"and this includes everything."

"So in the bottom of my heart"

"I knew that police will come one day."

And I got a phone call

which... from a number that I didn't know.

It was a police from special unit.

They said, "I can't tell you anything"

"and you are not allowed to talk to anybody about it"

"just come."

"The first question was about champagne and cigars and gifts."

"You can't say no to them. There's no way."

"There's no such thing as showing up empty handed."

"And what you bring is not what you'd normally bring over to a friend."

"No way."

Hadas Klein, her formal status is assistant to Mr. Arnon Milchan.

Arnon Milchan didn't make one call, almost no call

to anyone without putting Hadas Klein on the line.

She works with the most powerful people.

And she was very efficient, very effective.

"Very good at her job."

"Here we have a purchase from March 2010."

- "It's for Bibi!" - "Boxes and boxes of Cohibas."

"Everything here was purchased for one person..."

"and if you want their name, it's Benjamin Netanyahu."

"The quantities were huge, really huge. Really."

"Both when Arnon was here and when he wasn't here."

"Huge in the last few years."

- "Is it volunteered, or is it demanded?" - It's demanded.

It's demanded.

It's was... it was a supply line.

"In the other room, I heard that there is somebody else."

"It was Shani. Shani was part of our team."

The circle was very small...

like, the circle of people that knows.

"It was a secret!"

"I felt it was wrong, but what could I do?"

"They instructed me to do it."

"I'm just afraid my parents will find out and will be ashamed of me."

"You have nothing to be ashamed of."

- "Of course I do!" - "You have nothing to be ashamed of."

"Now the story is getting out."

"And it's with my name, so people will know I've brought them things."

"There were code names. Cigars were 'green leaves'."

"And the champagne was 'pinks'."

"I don't use code words to talk to people."

"I don't talk to my friends and family like that."

"But in situations where you're doing things that are wrong"

"you are more likely to use code words, even if it sounds absurd."

"Bibi requested the cigars be put in a bag for him."

"He would never carry them by hand."

"Yes, the demand was that nobody would be able to see the things."

"Did you ask for it?"

- "For what?" - "A bag."

"Perhaps, I don't remember."

- "And if we told you that you did?" - "So I asked, so what?"

"Concealed in a bag."

"There's a chance, maybe."

"Why would you ask to conceal it in a bag?"

"I don't know."

"Did you feel uncomfortable leaving the house carrying cigars?"

"Maybe. Maybe yes and maybe no. I don't know."

"What do you mean 'maybe yes or maybe no'?"

"I don't know, because it's not important to me."

"Bibi's lawyer, at the beginning of the scandal"

"told him to resign and get out of politics."

"But I think that he's worried more details will come out"

"if he's not in power."

One thing I want to say at some point

is that I'm dividing the person into two persons...

it's Bibi on the one... my kind of Bibi

not the crowd kind of Bibi

and then there's Netanyahu.

Otherwise, I can't handle the situation.

Is that okay?

He didn't have that many friends

and I was...

Why's... Why is it that always people approach me

"You're Bibi's friend?"

And everybody says, "It's because he didn't have that many close friends ever."

So...

I'm the one.

"We grew up in Jerusalem."

"There's one photo that somebody took"

"when we were, like, I don't know, 10 or 11"

"and it's on the entrance to his home."

"He was very much stronger than I am"

"and much bigger."

"Yoni was his older brother."

"I think he was three years apart."

"They looked very much alike..."

"same body structure, very similar."

"They had a strong friendship, but admiration from Bibi to Yoni."

"Yoni was like the star of the family."

"The father and the mother didn't ignore it."

"They were very much into admiration of strength and power."

I don't think I was a macho, but Bibi was a macho, in many ways.

"Good evening. Pro-Palestinian extremists hijacked an Air France jet"

"to Uganda's Entebbe Airport."

"Israeli government ministers worked into the Jewish Sabbath"

"tonight on negotiations for the release of about 100 Israelis"

"and other Jews from Palestinian hijackers."

"On July 4th, 1976"

"my brother Yoni, a lieutenant colonel and commander"

"led his men to rescue hostages"

"from Entebbe, Uganda in the heart of Africa."

"The terrorists were now certain that they were beyond Israel's reach."

"This operation was something that was never done..."

this magnitude, to save so many people, so far away.

The whole thing was fantastic.

"So much was written, and there's a movie about it."

"Landing in the dead of night at Entebbe Airport"

"Yoni's force killed the terrorists"

"and they liberated 102 hostages."

"You had only one person killed there, who was the commander of the unit..."

"Yoni Netanyahu."

"He was a very young man."

So for Bibi it was a...

you know, major, major loss.

"Yoni, my extraordinary older brother"

"instantly emerged from anonymity to fame."

"A person of exceptional intelligence and dedication to Israel"

"he served as a model to be emulated."

"Yoni's sacrifice and example helped me overcome inconsolable grief"

"and thrust me into the public battle against terrorism."

"Bibi sorta took over the first son's role"

"and with the death of Yoni, it was like a platform."

Yoni's death was definitely the making of Bibi.

There's no question about it.

It opened the door for something new to start.

And that's how it drove him to politics.

"Benjamin Netanyahu, like the country he represents"

"believes in attacking his attackers."

"His job is to be an ambassador"

"but his passion is a personal crusade against international terrorism"

"and the states that sponsor it."

"The US Embassy in Beirut tonight is a floodlit scene of death and devastation."

"A car apparently packed with more than 300 pounds"

"of explosives blew up in the narrow drive at the entrance to the embassy."

"I think that this attack"

"was meant to serve as a symbolic psychological blow"

"a defeat for the United States."

"In the question of terrorism, there is no neutrality."

"There is no position of magisterial objectivity between good and evil."

"You have to choose. You're either with the terrorists or you're against them."

"Once he became a politician"

"he was a major, major expert on terrorism"

and a protector of Israel.

"Flight 847, the TWA flight hijacked to Beirut"

"now under control of two armed hijackers."

"They want the prisoners you're holding, the Lebanese Shi'ites."

- "Will you release them?" - "They have not made a concrete demand"

"and I... our policy, as far as possible"

"is not to concede to terrorist demands"

"and certainly I believe, based on what I've heard from Washington"

"that that is your policy as well."

His performance on television used to be masterpieces.

"You don't surrender."

"Whatever you do, you don't surrender to these killers."

"Does the West have the will and the guts to fight back?"

He knew exactly what to say, how to say it

he has this pleasant baritone, his gestures...

"You slap them on the wrist."

"You make them stop and pause."

"They try again. You have to hit them again"

"until they know that you're serious."

He became really... perfected it.

"If they are gonna be unpunished they'll come back again"

"there'll be other killings other murders."

"And they're testing us."

"He was a real performer"

"and it made him a very popular person."

He was the hero of the Jews and he was the hero of the state of Israel

standing against all those who hate the Jewish people

and the state of Israel.

This was a great... a great campaign without campaigning.

"Ambassador Netanyahu plans to get involved in Israeli politics."

"He will likely run for a seat on the Likud's Knesset list."

"I think the Arabs are ultimately human beings."

"They are human beings and they won't slam their heads to the wall forever."

"But if they see cracks in the wall"

"and they see part of the wall is damaged"

"they will certainly persist."

"Benjamin Bibi Netanyahu"

"46, thrice-married father of three"

"right-wing politician, and now Israeli prime minister."

"He became prime minister, I think he was 46 years old."

Very young.

And he had confidence.

It's an amazing success when you think about it.

"Enormous!"

"I am obligated to the values of liberty and democracy"

"just as I am obligated to the eternal values of the Israeli nation."

"And there is no conflict between the two!"

"These elections clearly prove that there is a God in the sky!"

His ambition brought him to the heights of success.

"Bibi! King of Israel!"

"He's alive and well!"

"To become prime minister at the age that he did"

"to exceed the founding father, Ben Gurion"

"in the duration of his premiership"

"he reached heights beyond anyone else."

But his moral flaws

turned it all upside down.

"Sir, with your permission I ask that you answer my question."

"Did you see the big quantities of champagne that were delivered to your wife?"

"Do you suggest we ask your wife about it?"

"That's your decision."

"You expect a husband to recommend his wife's interrogation?"

"I don't know, but I can tell you for a fact, it wasn't just once or twice."

"Look, it's not my place to recommend her interrogation."

"How often do you investigate people for getting gifts from their friends?"

"What? You're bringing that up again? I thought we were done with that."

"No, we're never done with that."

"Here we're through with that."

- "We're not done." - "We're talking. Excuse me!"

"This is the media, and a police state."

"There are unsolved crimes and you're asking about bottles."

"There's crime here, terrible things happen here."

"We have terror attacks, and what are you doing? With all this nonsense of yours?"

"Your interrogations are meant to bring down the prime minister."

"Together with your accomplices."

"All the things we are presenting to you..."

"Are false!"

First of all, Mrs. Sara Netanyahu is very important

as a decision maker

in everything that goes around Mr. Netanyahu.

"Sara intervenes in both political and media matters"

"as well as hirings for the office."

"Benjamin Netanyahu is extremely skillful and knowledgeable and smart."

"But can we trust you?"

So that's Sara's... Sara's responsibility.

So once he thinks that someone has the right skills

still, Sara needs to give her approval

that we, the Netanyahu family, can trust this guy or this lady.

"She gets to decide who will be the advisors"

"she gets to decide his schedule, she gets to decide policy."

She is very, very important.

They are almost like couple that runs the country.

"I represent Israel all over the world."

"My husband and I walk along rows of soldiers."

"I meet with world leaders and their wives."

"I bring a whole lot of respect to our country."

"And it's not publicized, and our country is missing... missing out on it!"

"Sara Netanyahu is much more than controversial."

It's been proved in court

that Sara Netanyahu abused workers

"treated them in the most humiliating way possible."

"I began as the bodyguard of Bibi's children, Yair and Avner."

"And also of Sara Netanyahu, the prime minister's wife."

"And then I was put in charge of the household."

"Whenever they returned from visiting the White House, it was really hard for us."

"They expected the same level of luxury."

"All those servants, they wanted it here."

"They know how to 'steal' things they can't have."

"The state wasn't willing to pay for it, so invoices had to be falsified."

"She did whatever she wanted, and her budget was always approved."

"She drinks a lot"

"and I figured out that's why her behavior was sometimes friendly"

"sometimes angry."

"She'd shout, and then she would be kind."

"That's the cycle, again and again."

"He knows that she drinks, he knows everything."

"When Sara got in the car"

"after the drivers loaded her trunk with boxes of champagne"

"Sara would take a glass of champagne."

"As I take a glass of coffee to go, she takes a glass of champagne!"

"Did you get in touch with Milchan"

"and ask for that favorite champagne of yours?"

"Why do you have to say it that way? 'Your favorite,' it's really cynical and gross."

"It's really an unpleasant way to speak."

"Because you're specifically asking for it."

"I'm not asking for it specifically, and you're speaking disrespectfully."

- "Okay, did you ask for it?" - "Really."

"I have to say, I'm really uncomfortable here."

- "And if it continues I'll just leave." - "Okay, the question is who..."

"Or you can lock me up."

"Sara Netanyahu..."

she really feels that she is entitled to get all these things

and she scares from nothing.

She's still doing it today!

Just with different people.

"So pay close attention."

"From Sunday to Friday, you receive 20 bottles of champagne in one week."

"I don't recall."

"You don't recall, meaning that there's a chance?"

"I don't remember."

"What do you think? I stand there and count the bottles?"

"Maybe I count a couple of other things that concern our existence."

- "What are the circumstances..." - "Like how many rockets are pointing at us."

"We work 18 hours a day."

"She works with children, cancer patients, as a child psychologist."

"We have no pleasures in life!"

"Everything you're trying to prove here, I think it's wrong."

"Did you give them the champagne? Or did the drivers go each time?"

"When I'd come to the prime minister's residence, I'd carry it in a cooler."

"I have to ask you, how did it make you feel?"

"How did it make me feel?"

"I felt like... let me tell you..."

"Bottles of champagne, that each time cost hundreds of dollars."

"I felt that the prime minister's wife will torture him"

"if she didn't have a little to drink."

"I think Bibi is afraid of Sara."

"I am extremely familiar with her screaming."

"I never asked and I never demanded."

"Our investigation shows that you..."

"Your evidence is complete and utter bullshit. Bye!"

"At first I was shocked from the level of screaming."

"And I told Bibi, 'I don't recall working for your wife'."

- "This is your response?" - "You're speaking nonsense!"

- "Your response is that it's all bullshit?" - "You're speaking nonsense."

"These are testimonies that people gave to the police, ma'am."

"You interrogate people for hours and hours and hours."

"How are you not ashamed of yourselves?"

"The relationship between the prime minister and his wife"

"was not 100% understandable to me."

"But I knew that he was afraid of her."

"That he had to appease her."

"She controls everything. She knows everything."

"She knows where the prime minister is."

"And if she doesn't know where he is"

"she calls 5 or 6 officials to find out."

"If it doesn't all line up, boy we're in trouble."

"30 years ago, Netanyahu was involved in a sex scandal"

that was never been heard of in puritan Israel of those days.

"In Israel, this scandal is called the 'hot tape' scandal."

"And now we turn to a developing story that's stirring up the Likud political party."

"An anonymous source threatens to expose"

"member Benjamin Netanyahu's intimate relationship with another woman."

We know the name of the woman that was supposed to be in the hot tape.

Nobody ever saw the hot tape.

Yes. No one.

But his response was panicky.

"Good evening Knesset member Netanyahu."

"Our first question is..."

"have you engaged in intimate relations with another woman?"

"There was indeed such a thing. It ended a couple of months ago."

"This is a private matter. I owe a personal debt to my wife, to my family."

"And to no one else, with all due respect."

"How did your wife respond to the breaking news?"

"At 6 pm last night, an anonymous caller phoned the house"

"I was out campaigning for the elections."

"My wife picked up the phone"

"and was threatened that if I don't quit the race to lead the Likud party"

"they will release the evidence."

"This isn't about Benjamin Netanyahu."

"It's about the fate of Israel's democracy."

"It made Sara furious"

that you tell all Israeli public that you had a romance with somebody else.

Behind my back.

"I want to thank the one who walked and marched by my side"

"on this long and tumultuous road"

"and stayed with me, my beloved wife"

"Sara, who stands beside me."

"That was the moment that everything changed."

This shape, the relationship between Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu.

Okay.

Listen...

I think the country of Israel would be better off

if she didn't put her nose into his politics.

And... she's very unforgiving.

- But I gotta tell you. - Okay.

I gotta be as honest with you as I can.

I don't think I'll continue the friendship with them.

"Sara showed me a necklace once"

"and told me, 'Arnon bought it for me. It's Tiffany & Co'."

"And she hinted she'd be happy if I got her one too."

"I told her, I have a casino license. I can't do anything that's illegal."

"It doesn't look good."

"You see, when you ask for a cigar or champagne..."

"It's small things."

"But jewelry... I said we need approval."

"Whose approval did you need?"

"I wanted the prime minister to tell me personally that it was okay."

"Okay in what way?"

"In a legal sense."

"Bibi approved it was legal. 'A friend can give a gift to a friend'."

"So a friend can give..."

"No, he laughed. He said, 'just not a house'."

"And then you felt reassured?"

"Well listen, if the prime minister says it's legal, I accepted it."

"Do you know that your wife received jewelry as a gift from Arnon Milchan?"

"No, I don't know."

"But maybe she did, maybe not."

"I don't know."

"Did you not ask for a specific necklace?"

"No..."

"I advise you to tell the truth, it saves us a lot of embarrassment."

"I'm asking again, did you ask for any specific jewelry?"

"I did not ask for this ring."

- "And the necklace?" - "No."

"Sara asked for, and received from me personally..."

"I bought, purchased!"

"a necklace and a ring."

"Then Sara also asked for a gift for her wedding anniversary."

"A bracelet that cost about $42,000."

"Her husband said it was too 'Romanian'. Meaning that it was too flashy."

"She wanted to exchange it, but I said with a diamond bracelet like this, it's impossible."

"But that answers the question of whether Bibi knew about it."

"Bibi told her that with a bracelet like this..."

"encrusted with so many diamonds..."

"that people would surely comment, or ask where it's from."

"So Bibi said, 'It's too flashy, exchange it'."

"Which means he must've known."

"So I'm telling you that in September of this year..."

"September?"

"your wife received jewelry from Arnon Milchan."

- "I have absolutely no idea." - "'You have absolutely no idea'."

"I'm hearing about this for the first time."

"You're hearing about this for the first time."

"Unequivocally."

"He's a great actor."

"He knows how to look relaxed."

"But he's not relaxed at all."

"He's very, very stressed because of it."

Any one of us will be stressful if the police would come to us

with such an allegation.

But he knows how to play the game

and he knows that he's being filmed all the time

"and he doesn't want to look bad."

"Just to confirm we understood you correctly"

"is it possible your wife received this jewelry without you knowing?"

"I told you that I don't know if she did."

"And this is the first time I'm hearing of it."

I mean, he doesn't remember the diamond that Sara received?

He was personally involved with it.

He doesn't know anything about champagne bottles that she received.

Come on! I mean, it was in his house, in his car.

He doesn't know about it. It's ridiculous!

"I mean this is 250,000 dollars."

If you want to lie, you know, you need a great memory.

You need a great memory to lie. He has a great memory.

"I've never met a person with such great memory"

"a photographic memory for details."

"Netanyahu remembers texts, people, dates, history."

"I can't remember exactly..."

"'I don't remember', meaning maybe yes? Or maybe not?"

"No, I just remember the subject."

"I can't remember every single thing!"

"Thousands of people!"

"You can't even imagine. I didn't know a human being could reach such a level."

"It might be, I just can't remember."

"I don't remember. "I can't remember anything."

"Even if I spoke to him, and I don't remember that I did..."

"Do you realize that you respond to 95% of our questions with 'I don't remember'?"

"Yes. I really don't remember."

"I'm telling you the truth, I don't remember."

"Fact is I don't remember!"

"I simply can't remember."

"I don't remember, but there was something..."

"He lies left and right."

Bibi lies left and right.

He uses... I mean, lying for him is not something bad.

Seriously!

And it doesn't... it doesn't give him... he doesn't feel any problem with it.

- "It's a lie..." - "It is not a lie. I just forgot it."

"It's not a lie."

"If I told you that the light is off, I'd be lying."

"You don't know the difference between a lie and a mistake?"

"I know, I know. Trust me, I know a bit about lying."

The felony that Netanyahu is indicted in is called "breach of trust".

It means that you put yourself...

in a very high risk of conflicts of interest.

"Arnon Milchan has an access to the prime minister"

"where other people don't get this access."

Anytime he needs something...

he can pick up the phone and find Netanyahu.

"Did you speak with Netanyahu about the law?"

"Of course not."

- "You didn't speak with him?" - "Never."

"There is some law in Israel"

"that help Arnon Milchan to pay less taxes."

This law has a deadline.

And Milchan wants to this deadline to be pushing far off.

"Did you know about the ten year tax break? Did you speak to him about it?"

"Milchan never spoke to me about business!"

"Get it through your head."

"And I never acted in favor of his business. I only had national interests in mind."

"All these things you bring up... Not personal! National interest!"

So Netanyahu is speaking with his finance minister

telling him, "Maybe we'll help Arnon."

"Maybe we'll do it with this law... extend it for few more years."

"Any law that relates to taxes"

"needs to go through Yair Lapid, the finance minister."

"Did Bibi speak to you about Milchan?"

"He asked, 'Did Arnon bring it up?'"

"I said, 'Yes. I don't think it's a good idea'."

"He said, 'I do think it's a good idea'."

"Do you know if anyone else got this exemption?"

"No."

"Did anyone else approach you about extending the exemption?"

"No. He was the only one."

"If you ask me, it's a very strange subject"

"for the prime minister to approach the finance minister about."

"Why?"

"Because it's a marginal tax regulation applying to a select few."

"Put it this way..."

"it was the only tax regulation Netanyahu ever approached me about."

"It's just incredible, you approached the finance minister"

"unconnected to Milchan, but it was so urgent."

"And you told him, 'Listen, it's a good law'."

"'It's a good amendment. You should do it'."

"You're saying you didn't. Really?"

"First of all"

"it could be that Milchan raised something"

"I already thought about and supported."

"So you have two meetings with the minister of finance to say 'help Milchan'?"

"No. Not 'help Milchan'. Just 'pass the law'."

"All of a sudden after Milchan visits you, you think you'll visit the finance minister?"

"He tried to help Arnon Milchan in few other things."

Arnon Milchan helped Israel in some ways

to get all kinds of equipment to our nuclear project

"to build nuclear bombs."

"This was 40 or 50 years ago."

"Many people thought some of the things that he did"

was against the American laws.

"Years later, he decided to brag about it"

"and to tell it out loud."

"Do you know how it feels to be a twenty-something-year-old"

"and the state lets him be James Bond?"

"Wow, that's action, very exciting!"

It made someone in the American administration furious.

Not only he did it, but now he said it out loud.

"So, they decided to cut his visa."

"And all his life is in the US."

"What do you know about Arnon's visa problems?"

"He was very worried he wouldn't be able to enter the United States."

"Of course he panicked."

"And it's true, he reached out to Netanyahu."

"We never spoke about personal matters except for one thing."

"Except for one thing."

"And that is the visa."

"And I perceived it as a matter of national security."

"That is the only time he talked to me about a personal matter."

"And it's not personal. It's a matter of national security."

"In my opinion."

"Netanyahu speaks with the American Ambassador in Israel"

"he's calling the secretary of state Mr. John Kerry, a few times."

His people speak with all kinds of people

putting pressure to take care of this thing

and get Arnon Milchan his visa back.

Ultimately, it happened.

"I deserved to get help."

"I can't just give and give and give."

"Okay, we'll continue tomorrow."

"By the way, can you drop the word 'bribe'?"

"No."

"If this gets out, I'm ruined."

When you want to ask a favor from Secretary Kerry...

when you deal with him

in Iran, Palestinians all the rest...

you want to ask for a favor

this needs to be something very dramatic.

You don't want to waste your political capital

for Arnon Milchan visa!

"This is..."

"unheard of."

"I am telling you the truth."

"So everyone else is lying. You're the only one telling the truth?"

"Absolutely!"

"And what if I said you have more incentive to evade the truth?"

"I'm saying I'm telling the absolute truth."

"If anyone says different, they're the ones lying. And I'd like to hear what they say."

"Listen to me. The prime minister is the most principled and honest person in the world."

"My husband is the strongest prime minister we've ever had."

"He protects our country, saves our country"

"This country has never had it better."

"He's an admired leader around the world."

"In three days, we'll be at the White House, where he'll be welcomed like a king."

"All over the world, leaders and the general public admire him."

"When he walks the streets of New York or Australia"

"people stand around and applaud."

"He's simply an admired leader around the world"

"who does great things for the state of Israel."

"The polls didn't predict such a decisive victory."

"Now Prime Minister Netanyahu can begin his fourth term with confidence."

"And who's to know..."

"whether after four terms, he will ever leave office?"

"Bibi! Bibi! Bibi! Bibi! Bibi!"

"Against all odds, we achieved a tremendous victory for the Likud!"

"You are all important."

"And you are all important to me."

"It came to the point of what the French are saying..."

"L'État, c'est moi". The country is me.

When people serve for too long...

it gets into their head.

"And we saw the breaking point"

"because the way he won the elections of 2015"

"which was single-handedly."

"The polls was predicting a loss"

"but he won... big time!"

"And it did something to the ego."

"Around 2015, something changed."

It felt like he doesn't need to give an explanation to anybody

at all, like... like a Caesar.

And we need to obey...

the rules of... of not... not of the kingdom

of His Majesty.

"At that time, there were no police investigations."

"There was no threat to his rule."

He was seen... in Israel, and also by Obama or Putin...

as...

the most powerful leader that Israel has ever had.

"Bibi! Bibi! Bibi! Bibi!"

"I want to remind you that I was the campaign manager."

You see that, on the stage, I was standing with them too.

"It's me."

"It's only three of us..."

"Bibi, Sara, and myself."

"It was a glamorous... wow... night... wow."

"Do you remember Nir Hefetz?"

"Yes, of course. Who doesn't?"

"Who is Nir Hefetz?"

"Did she really ask who that is? What can I tell her?"

"Nir Hefetz was with the prime minister for a really long time."

"He was his media consultant for many years."

"He was in charge of the campaigns."

"Nir Hefetz knew how to climb, how to advance his career."

"I was the closest aid to Sara Netanyahu"

"and one of the closet to Benjamin Netanyahu."

And I was the personal spokesman of the whole family.

"Many, many people... and especially leaders"

"make the mistakes, after such a huge success"

when they start to believe that they are untouchable

that they are...

magicians.

"Benjamin Netanyahu started believing"

"what his wife has been telling him for years..."

"'You're the one!'"

"'If you were not born in Israel, if you were born in Michigan'"

"'you would be the President of the United States of America, for sure!'"

I think this night was not only his biggest win

it was also the day that he started to deteriorate.

And it ended not as I expected

you know, life takes us to unexpected corners.

"There are internal, family meetings"

"where they sit together with a few advisors."

"You learn a lot."

"And you were exposed to these interactions?"

"I am telling you what I saw, and what I heard."

"And after I testify, I think he'll also remember."

"It's not testimony. It's lies that I am unaware of."

- "To me it sounds real." - "Oh, it sounds real to you?"

"Nir Hefetz sounds real to you?"

"Guys, you are going to be very disappointed."

"If this is your witness. And this is your credibility."

"He is just one of the witnesses. Nir Hefetz's testimony about you..."

"He is one of the witnesses. That's right."

"And this witness won't collapse, he already has."

"Nir Hefetz became a very important witness"

because he is one of the messengers

between the tycoon Shaul Elovitch

and the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"There is a big difference between Shaul Elovitch and Arnon Milchan."

"Shaul Elovitch doesn't like the limelight at all."

"He never gave interviews."

He's very concentrating in doing money.

"I'm asking that the interrogation be short, and no shouting, because I'm feeling sick."

"But the interrogation won't be easy."

"I don't know what 'easy' or 'difficult' mean here."

"Meaning we won't be holding anything back."

"Tell us about your relationship with Shaul Elovitch."

"I'd call it a friendly acquaintance."

"The media describes it as a 'close friendship', which is just not true."

"It's basically an acquaintance."

"He told me, 'Keep Shaul safe'."

"'Shaul is an important friend'."

"The message was loud and clear, 'Keep Shaul safe'."

"Shaul Elovitch made his fortune from importing Nokia cellphones."

"And in a certain point of time"

he took very big loans from the banks in order to finance

his upgrading to become such a tycoon.

"At the end of 2016, Elovitch was in a state of panic."

"He had a deadline paying back loans"

"of billions of dollars to the banks."

"I never in my life discussed this with either Bibi or Sara."

"I never spoke with Sara, and I never complained to Bibi."

"I thought I'd need to call Shaul an ambulance to the ER."

"It looked like all the stress was giving him a heart attack."

"And from Netanyahu, Elovitch needs a signature"

that will allow him to get a very quick cash...

something around 200 million dollars.

Bibi understood that Elovitch needed the signature very badly.

"He asked that I take the document and personally hand it to Netanyahu."

Nir Hefetz goes to Netanyahu and give it to him.

Netanyahu reads it.

"Do you remember that Nir Hefetz brought Elovitch's document, saying it was urgent?"

"I don't remember anything like that. Absolutely not."

"'I spoke to Netanyahu about it'"

"'and he's a sharp man, you don't have to tell him twice'."

"Lies! Lies!"

"That's what he tells you?"

"Netanyahu read through the whole document right in front of me."

"'He read page by page, right in front of me'."

"Lies!"

"'Netanyahu read through the whole document right in front of me'."

What a liar. What a liar!

"Listen until the end please."

"He picked up the phone"

"and asked his secretary to arrange a meeting with Shaul Elovitch."

Now, the question is what Netanyahu wants

"in return for this signature."

"It turns out that Shaul Elovitch is also the owner"

"of a small website called Walla"

"a website with a news department."

"Walla is Israel's oldest news website."

"It grew to be a very popular website."

"At times, the most popular in Israel."

"Its audience is young."

"And that's one of the reasons the Netanyahu family wanted its cooperation."

"The Walla website, which reaches hundreds of thousands of people a day"

"is of utmost importance."

"You said tens of thousands?''

"Hundreds of thousands. Hundreds of thousands of voters a day."

''Benjamin Netanyahu values Walla, and wants positive media coverage from them.''

''And that is where this problematic relationship starts.''

''Because Shaul Elovitch is certain''

''that if he gives the Netanyahus' control over his newspaper', the website Walla"

''then he will get his signature.''

"Elovitch needs cash."

"$250 million."

"So, they had a secret meeting"

"and in the end, Netanyahu received full control of Walla"

"and Shaul Elovitch got the signature."

"Shaul Elovitch is a businessman whose fate is in your hands"

"with your signature on certain documents."

"The decisions I take in regards to him are totally clean."

"There's no doubt."

"There's never any connection between press coverage and my official decisions."

"I don't remember if Walla even came up."

"I did not consider it important"

"because there is no Quid Pro Quo!"

"The intervention in Walla's content was executed through every possible platform."

"Phone calls, e-mails, text messages, WhatsApp's"

"at every hour of the day."

"Each time there was a request"

"either to change a title, publish a story, or do a live stream, or an interview"

"it all came from Bibi personally."

"And I would pass it to Shaul."

"Netanyahu never told me 'Speak with Walla'."

"'It was always 'Speak with Shaul so they will stop broadcasting leftist propaganda'."

"Why did you get angry from their coverage?"

"I will tell you exactly."

"You maybe don't understand this"

"because you don't understand my viewpoint."

"I consider the structure of the Israeli media"

"to be one of the biggest weaknesses in our democracy."

"And this website is 'Walla Hamas'!"

"That is its nickname, that's what it's called in the Likud party."

"'Walla Hamas'."

"Netanyahu wanted to be well-illustrated"

"so that anyone who visits Walla frequently"

"would think he's the King David of Israel."

"That he's the wonderful leader leading Israel."

"He wanted his wife to be pleased, that she'd look good in photographs."

"'How many photos were there, how were the photos, did they have the right angle?'"

"And he wanted his son to be illustrated as a caring person led by values"

"who does the right thing."

"We felt like a restaurant serving only one person."

"He arrives, and he wants that meat, and this salad, and gets whatever he wants."

"So we used code words like..."

"'Parsley' was the request for more photos."

"Add lots of 'parsley' to the dish coming out!"

"'Less paprika' meant not too spicy, less critical."

"But the restaurant doesn't serve everyone."

"Only one family was let in and allowed to order whatever they want."

"You managed to make the Elovitches care about you?"

"Exactly! Thank God!"

"Thank God there were right wing people who supported us!"

"Isn't it enough that we're lying down, bleeding, wounded, surrounded by knives?"

"And you want us to be run over too? No! No!"

"I just want a little positive, objective and balanced press. That's all."

"In the great ocean, in the tsunami that slaughters us"

"with the firing squads who shoot, shoot, shoot, and assassinate my character."

"People will never know about all the good that I do!"

"They will never know the truth, only the bad."

"'She said that, she yelled this!' They're slaughtering me."

"You investigate me because the Israeli police has become the Stasi secret police"

"wanting to overthrow the government."

"You're trying to drive my parents crazy."

"You know that a child is the most sensitive issue for every parent."

"A police force of mafiosos."

"Treating us like a crime family, disgusting."

"We're the prime minister's family. Nothing like it in the world."

"Yair Netanyahu, his son"

"became very important in this case."

Both of them, Yair and Sara

"represent a very brutal approach to politics."

"A lot of power."

"Never surrender, never compromise."

"Excuse me, but you're full of shit."

"How are you not ashamed? This is what you do for work?"

"This is what the Israeli police is doing?"

"When there are a 100,000 illegal Arab homes. It's just unbelievable!"

The obsession of Yair with the media is similar a little bit to his father.

The Israeli media is a completely North Korean-style socialist

communist propaganda.

I was blocked several times from Facebook for "hate speech."

There are many examples to the influence of Yair over Bibi. You can see it.

"Everywhere! The Internet, the television, the radio, everything!"

"Everything is leftist! Left, left, left!"

"That's what the Israeli media is doing"

pretending to be objective

but actually echoing the most radical Marxist agenda.

"Yair..."

"is ultra-right-wing."

"I don't even think his father is as right leaning"

"but Yair..."

"he's a dictatorial right."

The common theme between the left in Israel, America, and Europe

is pushing forward illegal immigration and illegal immigrants

because they want to change the identity of the country

and make national identity obsolete.

"From the moment he wakes up, and all night long, the guy's on the Internet."

"He's a news junkie 24/7, he doesn't work."

"He believes that his father is too weak."

"Doesn't perform under pressure."

"Isn't aggressive enough."

"He even says that he's dedicating the next few years"

"to 'make sure my father doesn't mess up'."

"Bibi told me one day, I remember, that Yair can replace him."

I did this with my eyes. I didn't say a word, I just...

My eyebrows went up.

"Yair can replace you?"

First of all, you can't appoint your son.

"Why can he be considered?"

He said, "Well, he has the capability."

He really thinks that it's like... a kingdom.

"You're only interested in hurting my father."

"That's not true."

"Inaugurate some leftist who'll go back to '67 borders."

"That's your goal with this investigation."

"That's not true, it's the same as any other investigation."

"Witch hunt! Blood bath!"

"Stasi! Gestapo!"

"That's all I have to say."

"Police state."

"Let's begin."

"Did you get involved in Walla's content?"

"How would I intervene in content?"

"Again, you're answering my question with a question."

"I'm asking you, did you intervene in Walla's content?"

"No, but if they published lies and slander, I wanted to... I tried to fix it."

"Is it possible that your son Yair instructed Nir Hefetz?"

"That my son Yair instructed Nir Hefetz? Absolutely not. Impossible."

"That he'd instruct him to do anything in relation to Elovitch?"

"Have you lost your minds?"

"I thought that because the owners are conservatives"

"that maybe there's a greater chance that they'd have a listening ear."

"And make the press more balanced and fair."

"Were you involved in approving the hiring of different editors?"

"They had a garbage leftist editor and replaced him"

"with a bigger garbage leftist editor."

"When Ilan Yeshua, the General Manager of Walla, fired me as the editor"

"he couldn't explain why."

"He told me, 'Look, I don't think you're a good manager'."

"'Better you're not the senior editor'."

"Of course, later, when I saw the correspondence..."

"I understood."

"I understood they demanded to fire me"

"along with anyone else who might block the biased content."

"Hello. Good morning."

- "Good morning Nir." - "Nir, do you recognize this guy?"

"Yes, it's Shaul Elovitch."

- "Shaul, do you recognize him?" - "Yes, Nir Hefetz."

"This is a very conventional procedure to confront people."

"You have a witness who is saying A"

"and the other guy is saying B"

and all of the sudden, one of them understands

that the other one spoke against him.

Maybe he will sit in jail because of this guy.

"Shaul comes up with this 'solution'."

"Stop lying!"

"That we need to get rid of our phones."

"He's lying!"

- "If you yell at me..." - "I won't yell at you."

"Shaul, at the end of that meeting did you change your phones?"

"Did you change your phones?"

- "Answer the question, Shaul!" - "I'm answering you!"

"My phone was broken from the beginning. The screen was always black."

"It's a crime to destroy your phone"

when you know that it might contain evidence.

"Elovitch's phones carried nothing."

"They destroyed them, and they erased everything."

"My dog, Lucky... we have a fish pond and he fell into it."

"I ran to the dog and my phone fell into the fish pond."

- "And Lucky didn't catch it?" - "No, Lucky didn't catch it."

"The phone flew into the pond."

"But then, Ilan Yeshua general manager of Walla"

"goes to the police with his cell phone"

"gives all the text messages..."

"all the recordings that Ilan Yeshua did with them."

"Shaul Elovitch and Mr. Netanyahu"

they knew nothing about it.

"They were caught by surprise."

"You write, 'It's so frustrating that The Big Guy goes out of his way to help us'"

"'and we can't reward him because of a bunch of losers'."

"I'm not talking about that 'Big Guy'."

"You write, 'The Big Guy is going out of his way to help us'"

"'and we can't reward him because of a bunch of losers'."

"'The Big Guy pleasantly surprises me every day with the most important things'."

"'We must find a way to reward him'."

"What do you need to reward the prime minister for?"

"He says so himself! 'We need to reward Netanyahu for everything he does for us'."

"'And how can we do that? Walla!'"

"It's a total lie!"

"The police sometimes attacked him with all kinds of things"

"and he's like, banging on the table."

"'To what kind of low level you will get to try to catch me?'"

I'm sure he has a real fear that in the end...

he will send to jail.

And this is very scary... to his legacy to his freedom...

to everything.

"Let him stand here"

"and tell me the lies he's telling you."

- "Are you up for that?" - "Me? I am ready for it. Eager!"

"I don't know if my attorneys would agree..."

"Both of them! What, do you think I'm afraid of them? Those two liars?"

"Shameless liars!"

"Without shame! Saying things that didn't happen!"

"That I instructed them. And I'm hearing they've lined up their stories!"

"Both saying the same things?"

"He's lying! All they say about these things!"

"What is this? And you take this seriously?"

"Today I informed the prime minister's counsels and Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu"

"of my decision to take him to trial"

"with an indictment including three charges."

"A day when the attorney general"

"decides to indict a serving prime minister"

"with charges of corruption of power"

"is a hard and sad day for the Israeli public."

"And for me personally."

"When they published the criminal charges against him"

"I called him up and I said 'Bibi, what's gonna happen?'"

"This is serious business."

"They would not bring these up without good evidence."

I said to him, "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, you're in trouble."

And, uh...

"it could end up with jail."

And he gave me the usual story... "It's terrible."

"There's no democracy in the world that would do this."

"This evening"

"we are witnessing an attempted coup against the prime minister."

"Based on false claims and a series of grueling and systematic interrogations."

"The interrogators didn't pressure witnesses to tell the truth"

"but rather extorted them to lie."

"I think anyone who hears me right now should be absolutely horrified."

"In what democracy, in what lawful country do such things happen?"

"There's a law for everyone else, and there's a law for Netanyahu."

"Benjamin Netanyahu was before a judge a short time ago"

"saying he's not guilty of bribery, fraud and breach of trust charges."

"There was like a precedence..."

no prime minister will serve

"when, at the same time he has a criminal case going on"

"just five kilometers from his prime minister office."

"It's absurd!"

You're supposed to resign; everybody did it.

He is the only one who didn't.

"I won't let the lies win."

"I'll continue to lawfully lead the country."

"Lead with dedication and duty."

"Out of care for our security and future."

"Unnecessary."

Unnecessary. It was a result of arrogance, arrogance.

He was challenging the system.

He said, "No, I'm above, I'm beyond no one can touch me."

"You dare not do it. And if you do it, this is manipulation."

"Many times my jaw dropped"

"when I was reading the investigation materials..."

"Is Netanyahu our patriot? Or the patriot of himself and his family?"

"Senior Likud members, some close to Netanyahu"

"say they estimate this is the end of an era."

"After the indictment"

"the center-left parties in Israel, they all decided to ban him."

It made him more right wing in his position

and it made him dependent on the extreme right in Israel.

"We have an opportunity we can't miss."

"To form a full-on right-wing government."

"We can achieve our dream government!"

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu"

"he's nurtured the extreme right to boost coalition numbers."

"Netanyahu needs the far right's backing"

"as he tries to swerve corruption charges, which he denies."

"He has officially formed the country's most-far-right-ever government."

"With some of the most fringe, vile figures in all of Israeli politics."

"Itamar Ben-Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich."

"Their opponents call them pyromaniacs"

"as they portray themselves as patriots."

"Without Netanyahu, the fascist extreme right"

were considered not legitimate players within the Israeli political system.

They were considered very extreme

and nobody wanted to touch them or deal with them.

"Thank you Chairman."

"My fellow members of Knesset"

"I want to stand here and say unequivocally"

"there is no such thing as the Palestinian people, period."

"There is none. There was none. Period."

You just have to listen to Smotrich and to Ben-Gvir.

Smotrich is a Jewish terrorist.

"You're actually the one who arrested him in August 2005."

"You found bottles of burnt fuel, right?"

"There were a whole lot of flammables in that house."

"Later we also found boxes and boxes of road spikes"

"that they were planning on throwing on the roads."

He had all the instruments in order to use it for a terror action

"but he kept silence"

"and because we do not interrogate Jewish terrorists"

"the way we interrogate Palestinian terrorists"

he did not confess.

And this is why he was not in jail.

"When it comes to Ben-Gvir"

"he supported the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin"

"when he was a youngster."

"He was once filmed holding a hood emblem"

"he claimed was from the car of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin"

"an architect of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process."

"You managed to snatch the emblem from Rabin's car."

"The emblem is a symbol"

"and it symbolizes that just like we got to the emblem, we can get to Rabin as well."

"I think one is justified in committing horrible acts against him."

"A Jewish extremist assassinated Rabin three weeks later."

"Ben-Gvir, he was not recruited to military service"

because he was condemned in court

as one who support Jewish terror.

"He's the follower of a racist movement"

"and wants to expel what he calls "disloyal Arabs.""

I love Israel, I and not... All the Arab. Just, the Jihad...

- "Why do you want..." - Just a minute!

They want... they want kill me and kill you, the Jihadisti!

"In occupied East Jerusalem"

"he pulled out his gun, calling for Palestinians who throw stones to be shot."

He see violence as a legitimate action.

These are people that Netanyahu would not agree to take picture with

just two, three years ago.

"But now, Smotrich is the minister of finance"

"and Ben-Gvir is the minister of national security."

"He is now captive to their whims!"

"They are pro-expansion of Jewish settlements"

"in the occupied West Bank"

"retaking land they believe belongs to them."

"These people are messianic annexationists..."

"Jewish supremacists..."

"What do you say to those who say you are inciting violence"

"against Palestinians?"

These people want to settle Gaza and the West Bank.

"Ever since Netanyahu and his extremist gang assumed power"

"the crimes have become extreme and horrific in the West Bank."

On April 20th, we were heading to a location of a car accident.

"We encountered settlers attacking homes and burning them down."

"It was very risky entering the place."

The occupation forces and settlers were outraged

by the presence of the ambulance on site.

"They shot at our ambulance driver."

They killed him. I mean...

He bled all over the ambulance.

To have him bleed to death between your hands.

And there was nothing we could do to save him or help him.

"We are unarmed."

"We are paramedics"

"trying to help patients and injured people."

Every unimaginable atrocity happened during the rule

of the extremist ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich

and their Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"Israelis are constantly being represented as immoral."

"'How are you doing these things to the poor Palestinians?'"

"When that's not the reality!"

"They attack and murder us, when all we do is open our arms to them."

"We will annex, whether you like it or not."

"Because this is our Land of Israel."

"It was given to us since the dawn of time by God almighty."

"I want to erase the thing called 'The Authority'."

"There will be no 'Authority'."

"What are you going to do with the 3 million people that live here?"

"Who will accept them?"

"Wait a minute, there are many places in Europe that are looking for working hands."

- "We can do it, even in agreements." - "We will bring them to Europe?"

"I think one of the most unknown issues"

"regarding Israel that 20 percent of the population are Arab-Palestinians."

For a Palestinian who lives in the state of Israel

being a member of the Knesset is a very, very complicated issue.

You never go happy to work.

"This man is now the minister that is controlling the police"

"and he is bringing his racist, violent ideology"

"in all the policing system inside Israel."

"Smotrich would do ethnic cleansing"

"based on his published plan."

"That's..."

Bibi's governing coalition.

"For them, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich"

"they have zero interest in the corruption cases"

"because Netanyahu is the messiah's donkey."

"He can bring us all of our fantasies"

"all our dreams"

"our vision to annex Judea and Samaria"

to kill... one time and for all... the idea of Palestinian state.

So what happened in 2023?

What was the difference between 2023

and the 20 years that came before?

Only one thing: the Supreme Court.

"The Supreme Court was perceived by his partners..."

"the Ben-Gvirs, the Smotriches..."

as the rival of what they want to achieve.

Because if you are an annexationist...

the Supreme Court might stop you

so you need to castrate the Supreme Court from being able to stop you.

"At the same time, Netanyahu realized judicial reform"

could be a way to legislate his way out

of his legal predicament.

"Netanyahu looked at the Supreme Court"

as an immediate, direct, personal threat to him.

"It was a week after the government was formed"

"Netanyahu presented a very drastic very aggressive reform"

"against the legal system."

And he just, uh... put all Israel in a turmoil.

"The people said, 'Enough is enough'."

"The legal reform that he wanted"

made it so Netanyahu would appoint the judges that will hear his appeal.

I mean, it was... and it was transparent.

"He wanted to avoid any prison time."

"He wanted to change the way we elect judges."

"We need to change the power that they have"

"so they will have much less power... the Supreme Court."

"We need to change the police, we need to change the Attorney General"

"we need to choose a different Attorney General."

He wanted to break the bones of the system

before they are coming close

to determine his political and personal fate.

"What do you say to your critics who say"

that this reform is designed in part for you to protect yourself?

I think it's ridiculous; this has nothing to do with my trial because...

There is no question in my mind that the burden of the investigation...

the fear of the investigation...

"has led him to take terrible decisions"

"that were completely affected by his fears and his agony."

"Jail is a threat, and he can identify threat"

"more than any other person whom I met"

because he is always afraid.

What do you say to people who say...

you're only trying to override the judiciary because of your own interests?

None of the reforms... that's false.

None of the reforms that we're talking about...

these democratic reforms... have anything to do with my trial.

"All these people protesting just don't get it?"

Many of them don't. Many of them...

Isn't that slightly patronizing, Prime Minister?

- No, I don't think so. No. - To tell your own people

who are protesting in the hundreds of thousands...

I didn't say that all of them don't!

"Do you accept the premise that the public is upset about this?"

Oh, some of it is, uh, is upset.

You wouldn't know about the other side that seeks...

that wants to have the judicial reform

because their demonstrations are not covered.

So, yes, there's a divided country right now.

"The public response was the most massive demonstration"

"that we had seen ever on any issue."

And it was week after week after week for something like 39 weeks!

"It was young and old, and religious people even came"

"and of course secular and kids."

My kids were in the streets.

Your cameraman was beaten many times, I believe

and was arrested, or whatever happened to him.

"Everybody was in the street."

"Bibi made major mistakes."

What he did to my country is terrible. It's really unforgivable.

And he knows what he's doing.

It's not that he doesn't know.

"It was too much."

At that point, I said, "I'm coming out and I'm speaking in public."

"Netanyahu will be remembered as the destroyer of the state"

"as the one who tore it to pieces."

"And why?"

"Because the democratic state won't let him escape due process."

"But have no doubt"

"we will fight with determination and courage."

Netanyahu's legal predicament was undermining our security.

The army started to say that, "Look, our enemies are watching us."

"We were weak, but not because of the protests..."

because of the policy that he led.

"And it was clear to me that our resilience is falling apart."

It create a huge danger... security danger...

"because our enemies understand it"

"sometimes earlier than we do."

"I am getting messages from scared civilians"

"that are begging for help."

"'Where is the army?'"

"People infiltrated in here. Ben, get in the car!"

"Our brothers died because of you! We will shoot you all!"

"I didn't expect October 7th to happen."

"I didn't expect it, but I wish I could say I was surprised."

"Things have been heating up for a while."

I am not very old... I'm 20 years old...

but for my entire life, I have known, um...

bombs and war, and now, this situation.

"I was raised in Kibbutz Be'eri, in the Negev"

"which is in the south of this land."

"The Kibbutz, it's very based on community."

"There's a lot of agriculture and nature."

It's not that big... everybody knows everybody else

and we are a very tight-knit community in that sense.

"On October 7th"

"people from Hamas entered my Kibbutz"

"in the early morning"

"and started burning houses"

"and murdering people."

Over 90 people that I used to know are dead now, um...

um, which is a lot to grapple with.

It's a lot to comprehend.

"There are people that are still held hostage"

"as well as people that we don't know where they are."

Bibi has not been to Be'eri since October 7th

and I don't want him to come, because...

I would never welcome him in my home.

He was prime minister ever since I can remember

and, living on the border, I always felt...

the effects of that... negative effects of that, always...

of his choices and his policies and how that affected me

and later, his corruption, as well.

"And I don't want to hear his name"

"I don't want to see his face."

"I, I am exhausted of him."

"Do you remember that line from 'The Godfather'?"

"Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer."

"Lower the flames, maintain a conversation."

"I'll give you an example."

"Today, with our enemies, we are in talks"

"no one thinks we can manage to reach an agreement with them."

"But we control the height of the flames."

"The public blames Netanyahu for October 7th"

as the one who fed the beast.

He did not create Hamas but he fed it.

Netanyahu, who is against peace

and who is against having a Palestinian state

dealt with Hamas for a long time

as a strategic friend.

"This is confidential and can't be leaked. Okay?"

"We have neighbors here, sworn enemies."

"I'm constantly passing them messages."

"I confuse them, mislead them, lie to them"

"and then hit them over their heads."

"It was important for him"

to keep Gaza under the control of Hamas

and keeping the West Bank under the control of Fatah

and preventing them from being united in any way.

In order to do so...

Netanyahu was all the time helping Hamas to survive.

"At the same time that he was under investigation"

"he arranged for Hamas to receive"

"35 million dollars every month from Qatar."

"Netanyahu can't give them money by himself."

"Israel will not give money to the Hamas."

You cannot even transfer this money through banks

because even the banks don't want to cooperate.

"So you, the Israeli prime minister"

"needs to beg this small and very rich country, Qatar"

to give money to our enemy.

"These suitcases of money was given to Hamas"

"under the request of Benjamin Netanyahu personally!"

"And because the Qatarians knew him from the beginning"

"they were asking him to send them his requests in writing"

because they knew that he was going to lie in the future.

"He allowed more than one billion to be transferred"

"to the hands of the Hamas"

because he believed that he can control the level of hatred.

"It's nonsense; he cannot control the flames."

"Mr. Prime Minister, what is your opinion of Qatari money entering Gaza?"

"Will it help keep the calm in the Strip?"

"I do whatever I can"

"in coordination with the security agencies"

"to bring quiet back to the towns in southern Israel."

"Every step has a price, without exception."

"When you take steps as a leader"

"There is always a price."

"If you cannot handle the price, you cannot lead."

"And I know how to handle the price."

Your strategy was: keep Hamas there...

weaken the Palestinian authority on the West Bank

sustain the extremists, weaken the moderates.

"This exploded in our faces in the most brutal way on October 7th."

Bibi tells the world, again and again and again

"I am the expert on terrorism."

"I know how to fight terrorism."

"I am the protector of Israel."

And under his...

regime, we get into this incredible, unbelievable war.

"Citizens of Israel, we are at war."

"Not an operation, not a round of fighting."

"At war!"

"Chaos, carnage, and confusion today in the Middle East."

"Four months after the terror attack in Israel"

"the fighting continues."

It started with my neighbors in my Kibbutz being killed

and it continues with my neighbors in Gaza being killed.

"The death toll inside Gaza now surpasses 15,000 Palestinians..."

- "20,000 people..." - "In Gaza is now more than 25,000..."

"More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7th."

"The far right in Israel want a constant war..."

never-ending war... because they think, in their fantasy

that we can eradicate the Hamas from Gaza Strip

"and then we can eliminate Hezbollah from Lebanon"

"and maybe we can have a Jewish presence in Gaza Strip and in South Lebanon."

The people who are talking about a military solution

I mean, what's happening right now is not a solution

it's just a massacre in Gaza.

"I don't think that makes anything in our future better"

"and anything in our present better."

"It's just horrible."

"This death, this pain, this cruelty became bigger and bigger and bigger."

"As the Gaza war continues so, too, does the hostage crisis."

"Despite the return of dozens of kidnapped Israelis during the temporary truce"

"many more still remain in Gaza."

"I have been waiting for the government to bring me my son, Matan."

I can't wait anymore.

I can't sit at home and wait.

"My son should be home yesterday! Now!"

""The kidnapped must come home.""

In this minute!

Everybody should scream about it!

Can't be longer! It cannot be longer like this!

"In my judgment, hostages come first"

and foremost, above any other objective of the war.

"We know that not all of them are surviving."

"Destroying Hamas can wait."

But the hostages cannot wait another day.

"But Bibi's government"

"they are not willing to hear of ending the war."

"I just had a meeting with the prime minister."

"The prime minister heard me, promised me Israel is entering Rafah."

"Promised we are not ending the war and not giving in to foolish deals."

"I bless these decisions."

"The prime minister understands"

"there will be grave consequences otherwise."

"The 'price' of the hostages"

"you can use that as a cynical campaign slogan..."

- "Cynical?" - "Yes. It's one of our biggest dilemmas."

- "You just called it a 'cynical campaign'?" - Yes.

"Tell me what's cynical about us trying to..."

"No, you shut up!"

"Sinwar is demanding we release hundreds of terrorists."

"Murderers with blood on their hands."

"You have blood on your hands!"

"Hamas has existed for 20 years, and for 20 years you've done nothing about it!"

"At least do something useful now!"

"Or put your own kids there! Get ours out and put yours in!"

- "Why are you yelling?" - "I'm yelling because this is shameful!"

"The hostage families"

they ask for a meeting with the prime minister

because they are desperate.

"In this desperation, when they come to him"

"and she's sitting next to him, Sara Netanyahu."

"There were some reports about things that she said in those meetings"

"trying to encourage them to say good things about the prime minister"

"'or else why should we help them?'"

"Now to the Sara Netanyahu scandal"

"and her criticism toward the released hostages and their families."

"Yes, last week in two different meetings that were held with Sara Netanyahu"

"the prime minister's wife expressed criticism"

"over the released hostages and their families."

"First Lady, you complained that the families of released hostages"

"did not thank the prime minister."

"Is it working?"

"The hostage families, they don't like it"

but if your son or father is in the hands of the Hamas

you will do everything!

"Flattered her. Say good things about her."

"Have a picture with her. Whatever she needs."

"Instead of having the prime minister say..."

"Let me tell you everything I can"

"about your beloved one, about the efforts to release them"

"instead of that, you need to flatter the wife of the prime minister"

"and say, 'Oh, Sara, you're so helpful""

and "Thank you so much for investing the time and the energy."

The hostage families are in a very delicate situation.

Like, almost every hostage family I know is very, very critical of Netanyahu.

But I know that many of them are very, very scared

"to speak their criticism"

"that if they do..."

the government will try even less for the hostages.

"What is the higher priority at this moment..."

"totally eliminating Hamas"

"or saving the lives of those hostages and getting them free?"

"The reason we succeeded in getting 110 hostages out..."

"that's half the hostages..."

"is because we applied military pressure"

"not because we stopped applying it."

"We understand, also, that the one thing that gets Hamas to give them..."

"is to give these hostages to us..."

"is the continued military pressure."

"The only thing that gets Hamas to release the hostages is military pressure."

"The argument that only military pressure"

"will produce a deal proved tragically erroneous."

And yet, the war continues aimlessly!

I mean, is the objective the last...

Hamas soldier with a weapon in a tunnel?

That will take years! And how many casualties?

"I think we have to finish the job we can finish the job."

"Victory is within reach, and that's our goal: total victory."

"Our fight is your fight, and our victory is your victory."

Tonight, I wanna speak to you about total victory.

Total victory over Hamas.

Unless we have total victory, we can't have peace.

"Total victory" doesn't actually mean anything here, in actuality.

You know all the casualties and death and suffering

and that's what it looks like in reality.

That's what it looks like. That's what those words actually mean.

"My dear friends, the war in Gaza could end tomorrow"

"if Hamas surrenders, disarms and returns all the hostages."

That's what "total victory" means and we will settle for nothing less!

"Netanyahu goes to the Congress"

"because he needs the Americans desperately."

And, my friends, I came to assure you today of one thing...

We will win!

"He wants the Israeli public to be proud"

"to have their leader speak in front of this very prestigious group"

"and getting applaud so many times."

He's speaking to the American Congress but he's really speaking to the Israeli public.

Together, we shall defend our common civilization.

Together, we shall secure a brilliant future for both our nations!

"Well, I would say that, tragically"

the Americans don't know how to call him out.

"There was no plan for ending the war of Gaza"

bringing the hostages home, and changing dynamics in the region.

"And things only got worse."

"Netanyahu is the architect of chaos."

"And, as we speak, when all eyes are on the front in Gaza"

"and the front in Lebanon..."

"he is implementing his plan in the West Bank with the extreme right."

He may create a situation where it's irreversible.

"He's the great example of a leader"

that lead his people...

to the wrong place.

"But this is the reality in which he will preserve"

"his political power."

"And he know how to manipulate."

"He needs it, in a way."

"Okay."

"Goodbye, thank you."

"Time flies when you're having fun."