Israel
By Hamodia Staff
YERUSHALAYIM -
Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 12:17 pm | כ ז כסלו תשפ א
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s lawyer Amit Hadad arrives at the District Court in Yerushalayim for a hearing. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s legal team continued to hammer away at the legitimacy of the state’s investigation of the PM on Sunday, claiming that it was conducted in a prejudicial manner, The Times of Israel reported.
Netanyahu’s lawyers Boaz Ben-Tzur and Amit Hadad asked the Yerushalayim District Court to order prosecutors to divulge the attorney general’s authorizations to initiate each of the three criminal investigations against him.
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Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks during an event at Bar Ilan University, March 4, 2020. (FLASH90)
“This is a personal investigation, rather than an investigation that focuses on a concrete suspicion,” they concluded.
Also Sunday, the Jerusalem District Court authorized the release of some confidential information from the Netanyahu investigations to the defense team, partially approving a request from the prime minister’s lawyers.
The documents include the full testimony of former Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua, and a previously redacted account on the arrest of state’s witness Nir Hefetz, formerly a Netanyahu spokesperson.
Netanyahu’s corruption trial resumed last Sunday, with his lawyers asking the court to dismiss the charges against him due to alleged impropriety by police investigators, and the judges indicating they intended to order prosecutors to explain why some parts of the indictment were not sufficiently detailed.
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After months of promises, the mandatory quarantine period will be shortened to 10 days this week, the Health Ministry announces.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein has adopted the recommendation of professionals, a ministry statement says, and has decided that starting Tuesday at 6 a.m., anyone who needs to isolate will only have to do so for 10 days rather than the current 12.
As part of the new rules, people will have to test negative in two coronavirus tests, one taken at the beginning of the quarantine period and the second taken nine days after the initial possible exposure to the virus. There must be at least 24 hours between the two tests.