This is the On the Media Midweek podcast. I'm Brooke Gladstone. For the new documentary The BB Files,

director Alexis Bloom, used hundreds of hours of leaked previously unseen interrogation footage of

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sarah, his son Yair, his staff, and inner circle,

in order to trace how two different stories converged,

one being the corruption charges against Netanyahu,

and the other, Israel's war on Gaza that has since spilled into Lebanon and elsewhere in the region.

The engine is the corruption cases.

It all started with the fact that the Prime Minister does not respect the law.

Anyone that dare to touch Mr. Netanyahu is doomed.

That's Israeli journalist Rav Drukher, one of the main guides through the BB files.

Since we're speaking with him, we couldn't air any interrogation tape

because on the media can be accessed in Israel,

where airing those leaked tapes without prior approval is prohibited.

And since Drucker's already under investigation by the Israeli government, playing that tape

in our conversation would put him in further legal jeopardy.

Do the Netanyahu's know who you are?

Director Alexis Bloom in the film's opening minutes.

Yes, they know. Director, now a political analyst at Israel's Channel 13, has spent decades reporting on Israeli

prime ministers, from Ariel Sharon to Ehud Barak to Netanyahu. Since the BP Files is now

finally playing in select theaters in the U.S.,

this week we're re-airing our conversation from a few months back, because now you may actually

have the chance to see the film. Here's Raviv Drucker.

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