Tel Aviv Court Rejects Yossi Klein's Defamation Suit Against Yair Netanyahu and Likud
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First reported by Now 14 · Aug 6, 2026
What happened
The Tel Aviv-Jaffa Magistrate's Court dismissed journalist Yossi Klein's defamation suit against Yair Netanyahu and the Likud party over social media posts related to Klein's opinion piece on government protests. The court ruled that Likud and Netanyahu did not publish the distorted quote and that their posts were opinion expressions, ordering Klein to pay 30,000 shekels in legal fees.
- 01Tel Aviv court dismissed Yossi Klein's defamation suit against Yair Netanyahu and Likud.
- 02The suit concerned social media posts linked to Klein's 2023 Haaretz opinion piece on protests.
- 03Court found Klein's words were distorted in a tweet but not by Likud or Yair Netanyahu.
- 04Likud's post was deemed an opinion, not a defamatory factual claim.
- 05Klein failed to prove incitement to violence in his original article.
- 06Klein was ordered to pay 15,000 shekels each to Netanyahu and Likud in legal costs.
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