Packer is considered a key figure in the gifts affair. According to police suspicions, he acceded to requests by Milchan to help cover expenses of the Netanyahu family. According to reports on Channel 10, Packer allowed Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister’s son, to stay at his residences in Israel and the U.S., flew him and his friends to vacations in his private plane and financed his stay at a New York hotel. It was also reported that Netanyahu’s lawyer Jacob Weinroth asked Interior Minister Arye Dery to advance a request by Packer, who is not Jewish, to obtain resident status in Israel.