"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 w*r became another instrument
to stay in power."
"He survive in a state of w*r."
"He survive in a state of instability."
He survive
when we fight each other.
He survive when our enemies
fight each other.
"A forever w*r 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 k*ll evidence.
He tried to k*ll 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 ill*gal 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 t*rrorists 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 k*lled the t*rrorists"
"and they liberated 102 hostages."
"You had only one person k*lled 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 expl*sives 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 t*rrorists 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 t*rror1st 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 K*llers."
"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 t*rture 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 ill*gal."
"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'tat, 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
ex*cuted 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 sh**t, sh**t,
sh**t, 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 sh*t."
"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 ill*gal
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 ill*gal immigration
and ill*gal 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 t*rror1st.
"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 t*rrorists"
"the way we interrogate
Palestinian t*rrorists"
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 r*cist 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
k*ll me and k*ll you, the Jihadisti!
"In occupied East Jerusalem"
"he pulled out his g*n, 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 c*ptive 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 g*ng 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 k*lled 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 m*rder 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 r*cist, 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 k*ll... 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 sh**t 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 w*r,
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 w*r.
"Citizens of Israel, we are at w*r."
"Not an operation,
not a round of fighting."
"At w*r!"
"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 k*lled
and it continues with my neighbors
in Gaza being k*lled.
"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 k*lled in Gaza since October 7th."
"The far right in Israel
want a constant w*r..."
never-ending w*r...
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 m*ssacre 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 w*r 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 w*r.
"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 w*r."
"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 w*r
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 t*rrorists."
"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 w*r 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 w*r 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 w*r 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."
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Bibi Files, The (2024)
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