Yonit Levy interviews Netanyahu. She reminds him that he did not pass a budget, even though he promised to do so. Netanyahu claims that he did pass a budget and that there is a budget. He is lying, Yonit knows this, she tries to argue, he repeats his claim with greater confidence, specifying the amount (no budget was passed. After Blue and White agreed – it was decided that 2021 would not automatically be run according to 2019).
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Levi knows it's nonsense, but she doesn't want to bother. To the viewers. They're probably telling her in the earpiece to move on, she has a huge grocery list with lots of important questions.
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Netanyahu hasn't been interviewed there in a long time, so she moves on. She asks about the conversations with Milchin. Netanyahu mumbles that he spoke to him once and wished him a "Happy Holiday," he tries to escape to a message about the "sewn files." Levy insists. Netanyahu says "once - twice." Yonit knows the material well.
She has no problem opening here with a series of important questions. Why does my lord need to wish the main prosecution witness against him a "Happy Holidays" twice? Is it true, my lord, that you were a partner in a campaign to pressure Milchin to release his lawyer in your favor? Is it true that Milchin was promised that he would be protected, even after his lawyer was released? Did you inform the prosecutor's office that you spoke twice with the main prosecution witness against you in Case 1000?
Levy is not doing this. There are many more questions, we can't delay. We must get Netanyahu's response to the fact that Biden is not communicating, the partnership with Abbas, how he will form a coalition and what Ben Gvir's role will be.
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It happens over and over again. Super talented interviewers like Levy and others fall into Netanyahu's trap. They stock up on endless tough questions, do their homework, prepare quotes. Netanyahu deflects the tough question in a half-stuttering sentence, then immediately moves on to attack the interviewer or the political opponent or the message he came with from home, the vaccines, getting out of the coronavirus, Lapid.
When you read the transcripts of Netanyahu's interrogations, you realize how wrong it is to interview him like this. Obviously, a criminal investigation is not an interview. It doesn't serve the same purposes and the investigators shouldn't be of interest to anyone, but there is one common purpose. To uncover the truth. And when you dwell on a subject in depth with Netanyahu, you often discover that beneath the thin layer of off-the-cuff answers, lie lies, lack of direction, embarrassing answers.
Take, for example, the questions about the violations in the Haredi sector. Netanyahu answered that there were violations in every sector, that in general, the Haredi public was disciplined and its rabbis called for obeying the instructions and getting vaccinated. This is nonsense and he knows it. Yonit directed it very precisely. Studies in entire strata of the Haredi public lasted for months while there were no studies in all other sectors.
This is not a sporadic violation, not a single wedding or demonstration. This is an institutionalized violation in broad daylight, with the state standing helpless and not daring to intervene.
A few more questions on the matter would have revealed this. The numbers have already proven that the number of reports filed in the Haredi sector is much lower than in other sectors. There is good evidence that the police made deals with leaders of Haredi communities – you will downplay the violation, we will turn a blind eye.
The interview will not be harmed if some important topics are not asked, due to dwelling on specific topics.
Netanyahu talks a lot every day and is about to begin a blitz of interviews. There's no point in ticking off all the topics and all the headlines. It just leaves the interview flat.
I know. I was there. I made the same mistake, when I was still interviewing him.
