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Civil Case (Tel Aviv) 20471-09-23 Yossi Langotsky v. Yaakov Bardugo - part 9

September 15, 2026
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So come on, Langotsky, what is your name? Yossi Langotsky...  How do you say, shame on you.  Your old age shames your youth.  The way you express yourself is a disgrace to your family.  I very much hope that your children don't learn from you.

You know what? It's a shame that you were put on the air.  But you proved to everyone how shallow you are.  You don't understand what you're talking about.  But what, maybe they moved your caviar, what, is there some deal in oil that you didn't get, in gas? Is there any other lawsuit against Teshuva?

What, we know where we live.  What's the caviar not moving? What happened, didn't you eat the steak today at noon in the restaurant?

So shame on you.

The plaintiff's main arguments

Carrying out severe, threatening and inciting defamatory publications

On February 7,2023, the plaintiff was interviewed on the current affairs program presented by Ben Caspit and Yinon Magal, in which he expressed his unequivocal opinion against the judicial reform and warned of a civil war that would develop if the government continued to implement the reform (hereinafter: the "interview").  According to the plaintiff, similar warnings were also heard from members of the government, senior officials in the political and legal system, as well as from the President of the State.

On the same day, as part of the broadcast of the program "Sheva" on Channel 14, the defendant referred to the plaintiff's words and published three serious defamatory statements, which constitute defamation at the highest level, which constitute clear threats and incitement against the plaintiff.

The first statement attributed to the plaintiff and his son an intention to grab a weapon and shoot the defendant: "Langotsky what - your son is going to take a gun and shoot me...  He's going to take a gun, what to kill in a civil war, unpleasant things happen...  What will he take a grenade and throw at whom?"

The second statement called for the prosecutor's arrest: "Why aren't you arrested tonight with all your old age? I saw Yoav Telem arresting old grandmothers and bringing them to detention, why aren't you arrested tonight, who gave you this right to threaten me, I feel scared of you, you are a person who threatened me, my children, my family."

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