Israeli Tv Journalist Becomes A Thorn In Netanyahu's Side

By ARON HELLER, Associated Press, San Antonio Express-News: World
Sat, 12/03/2016 - 7:52am

[...] he broke the story that Netanyahu's personal attorney had represented a German company involved in a $1.5 billion sale of submarines to Israel, raising questions about the prime minister's possible involvement. [...] he reported that Australian billionaire James Packer has lavished Netanyahu's college-aged son, Yair, with gifts that included extended stays at luxury hotels in Tel Aviv, New York and Aspen, Colorado, the use of his private jet and dozens of tickets for concerts by Packer's former fiancee, Mariah Carey. Packer, who also owns a home next to Netanyahu in the prosperous coastal community of Caeserea, is reportedly seeking Israeli residency status for tax purposes. The desperate, pathetic attempt of the politician Raviv Drucker to slander the prime minister with a never-ending drip of lies and brainwashing is aimed toward a character assassination of the prime minister and his family. [...] in his fourth term, Netanyahu has repeatedly tried to curb his many detractors in the media, which he considers biased against him and whose numerous investigations have failed to land him in any significant legal or political peril. Last month, after acclaimed investigative TV journalist Ilana Dayan reported on mistreatment of the prime minister's staff, she read a 6-minute rebuke from Netanyahu on the air in which he called her a "left-wing extremist" and slammed her credentials. While in the army, Drucker was a military police investigator before earning a law degree and starting his journalism career as a real estate reporter at a newspaper. In one of his most memorable scoops, Drucker detailed 10 years of the Netanyahu family's overseas travel expenses that included flights, hotels and meals paid for by rich associates. Netanyahu owes much of his political rise to his U.S.-style TV persona and reputation as a master communicator, said Yuval Karniel, a communications expert at the Bezalel Academy of Art

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