Benjamin Netanyahu’s Son Yair Loses Libel Case

Tel Aviv [Israel]: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair Netanyahu lost a libel case and was ordered to pay 130,000 Shekels (about USD 35,000) in damages.

Dana Cassidy, an activist for Benny Gantz’s opposition Blue and White Party, sued Netanyahu for a post that he made on Facebook at the time of the 2020 elections. In the post, the younger Netanyahu implied that Cassidy was engaged in a romantic relationship with Gantz.

In his ruling, Judge Ronen Peleg said that some of things Yair Netanyahu wrote were, “truly shocking and extreme.”