חשיפה: הצעירה שנטען כי זומנה לחקירת משטרה רק כדי ללחוץ על ניר חפץ להפוך לעד מדינה היא קרן סידקובסקי
Before I begin this post I want to make one thing very clear. I support the corruption investigations against Netanyahu. He is guilty as sin. Further, I realize that the story first reported by on Channel 12 by Amit Segal is designed to damage the police investigation. I have no wish to participate in anything that would do so.
That being said, I also have no great love or admiration for Nir Hefetz, the suspect pressured by the police into becoming a state witness against his former boss, the prime minister. He is not a figure worth protecting, even if he may be helping to put Netanyahu behind bars. Nor do I have any particular problem with the police using his private sexual peccadillos in order to pressure him to cooperate with the case against the PM.
That is why I’ve decided to report the story below. There will be those who may exploit this reporting in order to besmirch the police investigation. I can’t help that. Nor do I think that this particular bit of reporting is going to do any serious damage to it, or help Netanyahu avoid what he has coming to him. This effort facilitated by journalistic scum like Segal is a desperate attempt to avoid the inevitable and they’re unlikely to save their corrupt political overlord.
As I wrote earlier today:
Israeli media are reporting with ‘deep shock’ that one of the key witnesses in the Netanyahu corruption investigation was given rough handling by Israeli police. What was the rough handling? Physical torture? Threatening one’s children or spouse? Hardly. The extent of the abuse involved confronting Hefetz with the woman with whom he was having an affair, and warning that the police would expose his personal life if he didn’t cooperate.
The well-informed source mentioned above tells me that then-national police commander, Roni Alsheikh, brought with him interrogation techniques used by his former agency, the Shabak. He insisted that if these protocols could be used against Palestinians, that Jewish suspects should not be spared them either. Now of course, the Israeli Jewish media is howling with displeasure that what is good for the Palestinian goose is bad for the Israeli Jewish gander.
Another well-informed source (different than the one referenced above) has reported the name of the woman with whom Hefetz was having an affair. She is Keren Sidkovsky. I’ve dug up a picture of a Keren Sidkovsky, though I cannot confirm that she is definitely the woman in question. I do not know her age, but the woman in this picture appears to be a model and in her early 20s. I am breaking a police gag order in publishing this.
I’m also displaying a police complaint filed by Netanyahu’s lawyers, which specifies how the police supposedly arranged a chance meeting between Hefetz and Sidkovsy. The premise of the complaint seems to be that the police used duplicity against Hefetz in their investigation. Imagine that! Police using fakery and underhanded tactics to snare a criminal! Who’d a thunk it??
Another reason Bibi’s stormtroopers want this story reported is that they believe it will besmirch Hefetz’s reputation. Can a man having an extramarital affair be trusted as a state witness? To which I would add, can a politician who’s had serial affairs and multiple wives on whom he’s cheated, be trusted as prime minister?
I’m bemused by the fact that Netanyahu and his supporters all of a sudden are so solicitous of the welfare of Nir Hefetz, someone who was once a member of Bibi’s inner circle and who betrayed him to save his own ass. They’re outraged that this good man was put through the wringer by the police and so terribly mistreated. Gimme a break. For Segal and that lot, Hefetz is a tool to be exploited on behalf of saving Bibi’s ass. That’s all he is. Netanyahu uses people like Hefetz whether he’s a member of the inner circle or someone who’s betrayed him, then throws them away. Everyone is disposable. I’ve got news for Bibi: he’s disposable too.
Now you publish a name and picture of a woman you didn’t completely confirm???
This is soooo… wrong! What if it was your daughter? Haven’t you heard of #MeToo??? What’s give you the right of exposing the name of a woman who might be involved in an affair?
As a woman I find this extremely offensive
@Hana G: I could dare less what you find offensive. Your justice minister violated his own country’s laws and identified her on the floor of the Knesset. Yet not a word of Outrage from you about that. You are a flaming hypocrite.
And who do you think is leaking her name? And how do you think I learned it? All this came from Bibi’s camp either directly or indirectly. YOu are a party to this with your stupid accusations. So if you want to direct your outrage somewhere, it should be aimed at Bibi and his fellow mafiosi.
My daughter would never have an affair with the likes of Nir Hefetz.
As for #metoo, you haven’t a clue what it stands for. It does not stand for women having consensual affairs with married men. THere isn’t a single hint that his mistress is a victim in this or that she was abused by Hefetz. If you have such evidence by all means, lets see it.
@Richard – Ohana is an asshole but he didn’t identify her by name. You did!
@ Hana G: Every politician and journalist in Israel knows her name. They would report it if there was no gag order. They can’t. I can. That’s what I do. Simple as that.
And like any other man on this planet, you don’t care for how it makes that woman feel. You exposed her name to the public!
You discuss me!
@ Hana G: You haven’t a clue what sort of man I am. In fact, I’ve exposed more Israeli male sexual predators, and offered comfort to more rape victims than you can ever know. I’ve exposed the identities of male predators protected by gag orders. I’ve shielded the identities of victims. I’ve reported stories under gag order you would never have known about were it not for me. I’ll stack my record on protecting such victims against yours any day of the week. The worst aspect of your drivel is that it is offered in bad faith. You don’t give a crap about Hefetz’ mistress. You just want to protect the whole rotten system. And then blame me who learned ithe information from Bibi’s own camp (or his camp followres), which you of course refuse to condemn.
You are banned.
Wow. Even i am not banned yet. But I would not dare to discuss it because I would care (a bit) if I was to disgust anyone… but I really would like to understand how Net&yahoo is still PM and not in jail.
@ economasterful:
Patience. His time will come…
Cherchez la femme.
You are no less a scoundrel than those whom you expose. The end does not justify the means. You seek to help imprison Bibi for breaking the law, but you yourself break it with ease and readiness.
Aida: I “break the law?” Whose law? My country’s law? No. Your country’s law? Am I bound by Israeli law? What, am I sworn to uphold Israel’s dignity and honor and act as if it is my country? For whose sake? For Israel’s? FOr the killers who started a catastrophe in Beirut, but who are good Israelis who deserve protection?
Sorry, I am a journalist. I report what I know and sources tell me. In this case, I report what an Israeli source told me. Someone who felt it was important that someone other than him know what happened. I owe it to no one to conceal this information. I have no loyalty other than to the facts and the truth. If you don’t like them then tell your leaders to stop acting like thugs everywhere they go. Then I won’t have such stories to report.