The Tel Aviv District Court rejected Yair Netanyahu's appeal against the ruling that he must compensate former Walla website editor Avi Alkalai in the amount of a quarter of a million shekels.
With the rejection of the appeal, Netanyahu was charged additional legal costs of 30,000 shekels.
In November 2019, Alkalai, through attorney Ron Levintel, filed a defamation lawsuit against Netanyahu Jr., after he shared information on social media that Alkalai was a Wexner Foundation implant within the Walla network and was acting against his father, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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In February 2020, the court ruled that Netanyahu must pay Alkalai 250,000 shekels.
The verdict was given without a defense filed by Netanyahu, because he claimed that he had not received the original lawsuit and was unaware of its existence, even though Alkalai had confirmation that the mail had reached the prime minister's residence in Balfour.
Yair Netanyahu requested that the verdict be overturned, but this request was rejected by the court.
About a year ago, Netanyahu filed a request with the court to delay the verdict, claiming, among other things, that it would cause him "financial ruin.".
Attorney Ron Levintel told Channel 12: "In total, the repeated appeals are causing Netanyahu to pay, along with the costs that are being decided, close to 400,000 shekels in this case, and it is hoped that the lesson regarding the need not to publish defamation, and not to share defamatory publications of others, indifferently, will also be learned.".
""This is already the fourth round in which judges have expressed their opinion that the filing of the lawsuit against him was lawful, contrary to the statements of Netanyahu and his lawyers.".
