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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on February 8, 2021. Netanyahu is charged with fraud and breach of trust in three cases and bribery in one of them. (Reuven Kastro/POOL)
Prosecutors told the Jerusalem District Court on Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should attend the court hearings beginning next week in his corruption trial.
“The prosecution believes that there is a real reason for the defendant’s presence in the opening speech, which is the opening status of the entire prosecution case, both in terms of the defendant hearing the proceedings directly, and in terms of the perception of justice,” they said in a statement, noting that the decision was at the discretion of the court.
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Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen as he arrives for a court hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on February 8, 2021. (Reuven Kastro/POOLFlash90)
The Jerusalem District Court ruled Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must attend the prosecution’s opening arguments next week, when the evidence stage of his corruption trial begins.
However, the judges exempted the premier from remaining in the courtroom on Monday during the testimony of the former editor of the Walla news site, Ilan Yeshua, a witness in the bribery case known as Case 4000.
The judges warned that Netanyahu’s absence cannot later be used as the basis for any future objections in the trial. The permission was given “assuming that the applicant understands the significance of his non-appearance, including the failure to raise further allegations arising from his absence,” the judges wrote.
A businessman accused of bribing Benjamin Netanyahu has alleged that the current Mossad chief pledged personal allegiance to the prime minister and his wife in 2013 in.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yossi Cohen at a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, October 15, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Responding to a demand that he address concerns that he has political ties with Netanyahu, Mossad chief Yossi Cohen released a statement on Sunday affirming that “there is no and has never been any political relationship between the head of the Mossad and the prime minister or the Likud party.”
Cohen also stated that “all operations” for which he is responsible as Mossad chief “are performed in order to keep the State of Israel and its people safe, regardless of who leads the government.”