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Clockwise from top left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives the coronavirus vaccine (Amir Cohen/Pool/AFP); National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat elbow bumps with an Emirati official, (Nir Elias/Pool/AFP); protesters pose for Netanyahu s Last Supper, (Courtesy Omer Burin); Donald Trump holds up his face mask, (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File); A woman at prayer, September 2020 (Ricki Rosen/Times of Israel); a new Israeli iconic demonstrator (AP Photo/Oded Balilty).
A delegation of Muslim religious leaders at the gate leading to the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz, together with a Jewish group in what organizers called “the most senior Islamic leadership delegation to visit the former Nazi death camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 23, 2020. (American Jewish Committee via AP)
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The Movement for Quality Government in Israel, which filed the petition, is demanding that Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit order an investigation. The movement is also asking that a state commission of inquiry be set up. Another petition that has been joined with this one was filed by the Israeli Democracy Guard, which is demanding that Netanyahu also be questioned about the shares he sold in a steel company controlled by his cousin, Nathan Milikowsky.
The submarine affair, which has been dubbed Case 3000, involves two transactions between Israel and a German shipbuilding firm: The purchase of three submarines for 1.5 billion euros ($1.8 billion), and the 430-million-euro purchase of missile boats to defend the gas rigs in the Mediterranean. According to indictments already issued in the case, senior naval officers, state employees and associates of the prime minister asked for and took bribes to advance the deals. The
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at a welcoming ceremony for a new submarine, Rahav, at the Israeli Navy base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
The High Court of Justice announced on Monday that it will hear petitions calling for a criminal probe into the alleged involvement of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the so-called submarine scandal.
The Movement for Quality Government in Israel has requested that the court compel Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to order a criminal investigation into Netanyahu’s possible involvement in the affair, also known as Case 3000, which revolves around allegations of a massive bribery scheme in the multi-billion-shekel state purchase of naval vessels from German shipbuilder Thyssenkrupp.
Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel s environment reporter.
Interior Ministry Aryeh Deri in an interview with the ultra-Orthodox news site Kikar HaShabbat, broadcast on May 9, 2020. (Screenshot/Kikar HaShabbat)
With the country heading for a third lockdown that is bound to exacerbate already deepening poverty, the Movement for Quality Government on Thursday petitioned the High Court of Justice to address “grave concerns” that Interior Ministry criteria for distributing NIS 700 million ($210 million) in food aid had been “sewn up” to benefit the ultra-Orthodox population.
An analysis presented to the court showed that the condition for receiving food vouchers qualifying for a municipal rate discount of at least 70% would benefit 45 percent of Haredi households, 25% of Arab ones, and just 3.8% of Jewish homes that are not ultra-Orthodox.
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