Ex-Netanyahu aide says at trial: ‘He shredded everything, even grocery lists’

Key witness for prosecution Nir Hefetz in graft case says he and associates used to delete electronic messages for fear of recriminations

A key witness for the prosecution in Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial testified Tuesday that the former prime minister used to shred all of his documents, down to his daily reminders.

“Netanyahu shredded everything, even grocery lists,” said Nir Hefetz in response to a lawyer’s question about Netanyahu shredding documents.

Hefetz once served as a senior adviser and family spokesperson to Netanyahu before turning state witness against him.

Hefetz is the state’s star witness in Case 4000, the most serious of the three cases in which Netanyahu is facing charges. The ex-premier is alleged to have worked to illicitly and lucratively benefit the business interests of controlling shareholder of the Bezeq media company Shaul Elovitch in exchange for positive coverage on the Walla news site owned by Elovitch.

Hefetz, who was on his ninth day of testimony in the ongoing corruption trial against Netanyahu, said he regularly instructed figures close to the former prime minister to delete texts and other electronic messages.

He said he also regularly deleted correspondence with Netanyahu himself.

Lawyer Jack Chen presented Hefetz with a message from 2016 in which Hefetz wrote to former Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua that said, “Delete all of our correspondence.”

Hefetz said that Elovitch “raised the subject that we need to switch phones,” and that Elovitch had told him that “deleting messages is not effective because it’s possible to restore them.”

Hefetz has provided prosecutors with key information as an interlocutor between Netanyahu and Elovitch. Hefetz was often the one communicating the premier’s wishes to Walla management and has testified on the nature of this relationship.

Hefetz left a long career in journalism in 2009 to work as a spokesman for Netanyahu’s government, and in 2014 became the Netanyahu family’s spokesman and adviser.

In 2018, after he was arrested as a possible accomplice in connection with one of Netanyahu’s corruption cases, Hefetz signed a state witness deal and provided investigators with recordings of conversations with Netanyahu and his family.

Earlier this month, Hefetz said that he left his position in 2017 because he feared the then-prime minister was no longer fit to serve. Hefetz alleged that there was a top-secret security incident during his tenure that endangered thousands.

Hefetz also said he had warned Netanyahu about what later became Case 2000, in which the former premier is accused of attempting to reach a quid pro quo with Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes for positive media coverage in exchange for legislation weakening rival newspaper Israel Hayom.

Hefetz’s testimony has mostly pertained to Case 4000, but some of it has related to Case 2000.

In the third case against Netanyahu, Case 1000, he is accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of gifts from two billionaires — Hollywood-based Israeli movie mogul Arnon Milchan and Australian magnate James Packer.

Netanyahu denies all allegations against him, and says the charges were fabricated by a biased police force and state prosecution service, overseen by a weak attorney general, in league with political opponents and the media.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-netanyahu-aide-says-at-trial-he-shredded-everything-even-grocery-lists/

Fauci: Tell Unvaccinated Family Members Not to Show Up at Christmas Gatherings

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that considering the highly contagious Omicron variant of coronavirus is rapidly spreading through the United States, unvaccinated family members should be asked not to attend Christmas gatherings this year.

Guest host Alicia Menendez said, “Dr. Fauci, you know very well, there are people deciding whether they’re going to get on planes to be with their families for the holidays. What is your advice?”

Fauci said, “Certainly any kind of travel increases the risk. If you are careful and prudent, and the travel you feel is important, necessary travel, like seeing a member of the family that you have not seen for a long time if you are vaccinated and boosted, and the people that you are visiting are vaccinated and boosted. You can get on a plane and travel, so long as you’re very prudent at the airport of wearing a mask.”

Menendez said, “If someone in your family is not vaccinated, should you ask them not to show up?”

Fauci said, “Yes, I would do that. I think we’re dealing with a serious enough situation right now that if there’s an unvaccinated person, I would say, ‘I’m very sorry, but not this time, maybe another time when this is all over.'”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/12/21/fauci-tell-unvaccinated-family-members-not-to-show-up-at-christmas-gatherings/

Fauci to Unvaccinated: ‘The Virus Is Going to Find You’

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that the highly contagious Omicron variant of coronavirus “is going to find you” if you are unvaccinated.

Fauci said, “We know now from studies that have already been done, with more to come, if you are vaccinated without a boost, you have a diminution in the protection to Omicron when you talk about the level of antibodies. But that’s very nicely reconstituted with a boost. You can feel reasonably comfortable, but all things being equal, you will not get seriously ill if you get infected.”

On the unvaccinated, Fauci said, “Well, they’re going to be very vulnerable. That’s why I worry about the people who refuse to get vaccinated. When you’re dealing with any COVID virus, when you’re dealing with one that spreads so rapidly, and you’re unvaccinated, the virus is going to find you. And I know there will be a lot of people that will get seriously ill if you are unvaccinated. That’s the reason why despite the recalcitrance on the part of so many people to get vaccinated, we continue to encourage them, particularly in the context of this new variant, to please get vaccinated. If you have vaccinated, make sure you get your booster in time.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/12/21/fauci-to-unvaccinated-the-virus-is-going-to-find-you/

Walensky on Questionable School Mask Mandate Study Cited by CDC: There Are Many Studies Defending Masks in Schools

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky responded to a question on criticism of the study that the agency has repeatedly used to justify school mask mandates by stating that there have been multiple studies “that have demonstrated that our layered prevention strategies, including masks in schools, are able to keep our schools safely open.” And that the best way to keep schools open “is to use those layered prevention strategies, and that includes not only vaccinating our children and our adults, but also to continue to mask, certainly in the context of this very transmissible Omicron variant.”

A viewer asked, [relevant exchange begins around 10:00] “You have consistently cited one study in Arizona as justification for mask mandates in schools. Yet, there’s reporting in The Atlantic that shows that the study is deeply flawed. Will you follow the science and stop relying on faulty studies and end mask mandates for children in schools?”

Walensky responded, “There [has] been study after study, not only in this country, but in other countries, that have demonstrated that our layered prevention strategies, including masks in schools, are able to keep our schools safely open. What I would say now is that we have the capacity with vaccines available now to children above the age of 5 that we would encourage parents to get their children vaccinated. Importantly, we want to be able to keep our schools open and the best way to do that is to use those layered prevention strategies, and that includes not only vaccinating our children and our adults, but also to continue to mask, certainly in the context of this very transmissible Omicron variant.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/12/21/walensky-on-questionable-school-mask-mandate-study-cited-by-cdc-there-are-many-studies-defending-masks-in-schools/

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