Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was ordered by the Kfar Saba Magistrate's Court on Wednesday to pay NIS 4,500 legal expenses to Dana Cassidy, a political activist from Blue and White who sued him, Israeli media reported.
The lawsuit came as a result of Netanyahu making baseless claims on his Twitter account insinuating that she and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz were in an intimate and sexual relationship, Hebrew media reported.
After the payment, the court will overturn the ruling that requires Netanyahu to pay half a million shekels to Cassidy after he failed to file a letter of defense and also did not accept the lawsuit - claiming that it was "ridiculous, delusional and baseless," saying that it was "nothing more than a publicity stunt."
Cassidy claimed that Netanyahu used an ordinary photo of the plaintiff with Gantz to produce blatant allusions that she was intimately involved with the Blue and White leader.