Source: Foreign Policy
by Chuck Freilich
“It will come as no surprise that The Bibi Files by Alexis Bloom and Alex Gibney is an extremely well-crafted documentary. The two are highly regarded filmmakers, and the movie has been shortlisted for an Oscar in the documentary category. The files referred to are the three criminal indictments on fraud, bribery, and breach of trust …. The Israeli leader is accused of taking bribes from billionaires that total hundreds of thousands of dollars, though he said he was simply receiving gifts from friends. He’s also on trial for conspiring with the publisher of one Israeli newspaper to use his influence to limit the circulation of another, in exchange for favorable coverage. Most egregiously, he’s accused of agreeing to regulatory changes worth hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of Israel’s largest telecoms company, in exchange for favorable coverage on one of its news websites.” (01/08/25)