James Packer is making headlines in Israel for all the wrong reasons. In recent weeks, sensational allegations of gifts, influence peddling, and attempts to buy favourable media coverage have emerged, involving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his close ties with a handful of select billionaires. It's been reported that Mr Packer provided generous flights, gifts and hospitality to the Prime Minister's son, Mariah Carey tickets to the head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, and that Prime Minister Netanyahu set up an investors' meeting between Mr Packer and a newspaper publisher, in exchange for favourable coverage of his Prime Ministership by that newspaper. PM speaks to Dr Tehilla Altshuler, director of the Center for Democratic Values and Institutions at the Israel Democracy Institute.