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Former prime minister Naftali Bennett filed a NIS 2m. defamation lawsuit Thursday against Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman (Likud), MK Ohad Tal (Religious Zionist Party), and the right-wing broadcaster Channel 14 for claims that he took psychiatric medications to function.
The lawsuit was filed in the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court.
In the lawsuit, Bennett accused Channel 14 of being a “television propaganda channel masquerading as a journalistic news outlet,” adding that its content consists of positive coverage of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition.
He also accused the news outlet of attacking Netanyahu’s political rivals using “fabrications presented as ‘facts,’ as well as extreme and biased opinions.
Bennett also accused Silman of telling political activists at a conference ahead of elections that he was “both confused and stuttering” from the beginning, stating he was in a “really, really, poor mental state.”
The lawsuit’s claim quoted Silman saying, “Everyone around him knew this; they would put pills for him into all kinds of little red boxes, supposedly so he could function.” Silman also claimed that the person actually running the prime minister’s office during Bennett's term was Yair Lapid and his entire team.
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