Knesset Member Accuses Former AG of Fear Ahead of Netanyahu Trial Testimony
Translated & summarized from Srugim by baba
Member of Knesset Moshe Saada accused former Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit of being terrified to testify in the "Cases of the Thousand" trial involving Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Saada claimed Mandelblit is trying to evade the witness stand due to fear. He advised the defense to build its cross-examination slowly, confronting Mandelblit with facts later. Saada asserted Mandelblit cannot claim to not remember events as they were documented in real-time.
The story in 5 lines · by baba
- MK Moshe Saada claims former AG Avichai Mandelblit is terrified to testify in the Netanyahu trial.
- Saada stated Mandelblit is trying to evade the witness stand due to significant fear.
- The MK believes Mandelblit will arrive in court scared and frightened.
- Saada advised the defense to confirm facts first, then confront Mandelblit.
- The former AG cannot claim to not remember, as events were documented in real-time.
Member of Knesset Moshe Saada launched a sharp attack against former Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, ahead of Mandelblit's expected testimony in the "Cases of the Thousand" trial. Speaking on Eli Tsipori's radio program on Radio Gal Israel, Saada claimed Mandelblit is significantly afraid of testifying and is trying to evade the witness stand. "He tried to do everything to evade and not come to testify, because he is very afraid," Saada stated during the interview. "If you take him to a polygraph, you will see that he is extremely afraid, and rightly so. He will arrive scared, frightened, and terrified."
Saada also commented on how he believes the defense should conduct its cross-examination of the former attorney general. "I think lawyer Amit Haddad, and I trust him, should know how to build this examination slowly: first to confirm facts, and at the end, during his last days on the stand, to confront him with the issues." Saada concluded that Mandelblit will not be able to evade giving clear answers in court, stating, "Now he has nowhere to go; he cannot say he doesn't remember, because the matters were written and delivered to him in real-time."
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