Greetings from Israel - what a scandal !
Double Life - Doppel Leben ! : השופטת אתי כרייף לשר האוצר משה כחלון: "אני לבד הער...: השופטת אתי כרייף לשר האוצר משה כחלון: "אני לבד הערב וממש רציתי להרים את נטל הראיה" Efi Naveh - Head of the Bar Association ...
השופטת אתי כרייף לשר האוצר משה כחלון: "אני לבד הערב וממש רציתי להרים את נטל הראיה"
 Efi Naveh - Head of the Bar Association |
 Minister and a member of the Committee for the Selection of Judges Moshe Kahlon and sexy Candidate Eti Kreif: "I'm alone tonight and I really wanted to lift the burden of the evidence ... |
The texts between Kreif and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon imply a potentially romantic connection at a time when Kahlon was on the committee deciding whether Kreif would become a judge. Kreif was eventually appointed as a magistrate’s court judge in Netanya.
The case of promoting and appointing judges for bribes (also known as " sex for appointment " or "the sex and appointments case" or the Efi Neve case ) is a criminal investigation that began in 2019, in which the head of the Israel Bar Association , Efi Neve , and Netanya Magistrate's Court judge Eti Kreif were suspected on suspicion of poor intervention in the process of appointing judges in exchange for a sexual bribe . [1] In March 2021, the State Attorney's Office decided to close the case , while Kreif retired from the jurisdiction.
In 2013, lawyer Eti Kreif, who served in the Israel Police as a police prosecutor, submitted a candidacy for the position of judge. A month later, she met Efi Neveh at a lawyers' conference , when he was the head of the Tel Aviv district and the center of the bar association. A sexual relationship developed between the two. Two years later, Naveh was elected chairman of the bar. Upon his appointment, Kreif asked Manova to find out why she had been waiting for two years to be called to the first subcommittee. pass is 7 or higher), and it was determined that "her skills are not suitable for a judicial position". Despite the low score she received, Kreif moved on to the next selection stage and was summoned to appear before the committee for the appointment of judges for an interview. After the interview, she was recommended for the position of judge by 7 of the 8 members of the committee. The only member of the committee who objected. She was appointed by Supreme Court Judge Eliakim Rubinstein. When Kreif received the notice of her appointment, she contacted Naveh and he claimed that he was the one who brought about her election.
The last cell phone conversation between Naveh and Kreif took place on June 7, 2016 at 2:38 p.m., the day Kreif was elected judge.
The police investigation
Following an investigation conducted by the journalist Hadas Steif , Naveh's ex-wife gave her his cell phone that was left in the safe at her home. After the phone was hacked, alleged evidence of accepting sexual bribes in exchange for promoting judges was found in it. [2] The phone was handed over to the Israel Police in exchange for immunity from Steif's prosecution. The police opened an undercover investigation [3] and on January 5, 2019, the head of the national unit for fraud investigations , Deputy Superintendent Yoav Talem , requested a gag order ( a judge's order that a case may not be discussed in public.) from the Magistrate's Court in Netanya regarding the affair. [4] On January 16, 2019, the police investigation became public. The police detained the lawyer Efi Naveh for questioning , the head of the Bar Association, on suspicion of bribery offenses. [5] In addition, the possibility that Naveh used his status to help female interns with the bar exam, training and admission to the profession was investigated. [6]
That evening, the gag order was partially lifted and Naveh's name was revealed as the main suspect in the case. [7] [8] In addition, Judge Kreif was questioned on the suspicion that she was elected judge in June 2016 after having sexual relations with Naveh, who at the time was the head of the Bar Association, [9] and a lawyer who allegedly had sexual relations with Naveh in order to promote her husband, Justice of the peace, to the judge of the district court . [10] The names of the judge and the lawyer were banned from publication, but in March 2019, Kreif's name was allowed to be published. [11]
During her investigation, Kreif deleted text messages from her cell phone. These messages were recovered by the police and revealed that the Minister of Finance and a member of the Committee for the Selection of Judges, Moshe Kahlon, was in close personal contact with Kreif, even during the period when her candidacy for appointment to the position of judge was being discussed. [12] The State Attorney's Office responded that there is no justification to investigate Kahlon with a warning , "in light of the fact that the exchange of text messages that was intercepted took place about six months after Kreif's election to judgeship." [13] But according to Aviad Glickman , the police have evidence of a connection between Kahlon and Kreif even before her appointment. [14]
At the end of the investigation, the police announced that, in their opinion, an evidentiary foundation had been formed against Efi Naveh and against Judge Esther (Eti) Kreif for committing crimes in the field of moral purity . [15] In December 2019, the prosecutor's office announced its decision to file an indictment against Naveh on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust , and against Kreif on charges of bribery and destruction of evidence, subject to a hearing. [16] Following the disclosure of the affair, Naveh resigned from his position as the head of the Bar Association [17] and in March 2021, Kreif resigned from the Judiciary Burden.
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