{"id":25919,"date":"2025-09-19T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/25919\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T17:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:00:14","slug":"complications-arise-in-negotiations-for-states-witness-deal-in-may-golan-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/25919\/","title":{"rendered":"Complications arise in negotiations for state&#8217;s witness deal in May Golan affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Police announced Wednesday that a state\u2019s witness has been recruited in the investigation concerning the conduct of Social Equality Minister May Golan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Another individual, who was close to finalizing a state\u2019s witness agreement, withdrew at the last minute. At least three of the minister\u2019s associates are expected to testify as prosecution witnesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">On Monday, investigators from the Israel Police\u2019s Lahav 433 unit <a class=\"\" album=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/414945\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">raided Minister Golan\u2019s office<\/a> in Jerusalem and the office of Attorney Ehud Gabay, her former parliamentary aide. Gabay was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the case and was reportedly on the verge of signing a state\u2019s witness deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Minister Golan was summoned for questioning but declined to appear, instead arriving at court to show support for her detained associate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">A statement issued on her behalf read: \u201cI will not cooperate with a tainted process that pressures and threatens innocent people, who have done no wrong, simply because they worked or are working with May Golan, the \u2018Bibist.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police announced Wednesday that a state\u2019s witness has been recruited in the investigation concerning the conduct of Social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,1158,16884,14871,43],"class_list":["post-25919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-lahav-433","tag-may-golan","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}