The South African Constitutional court is expecting former President Jacob Zuma to appear in person for punishment or be punished in absentia. On Friday the court sent out a notice to Zuma and his legal team to file the papers by Wednesday and guide it on how to penalise him. “The first respondent (Zuma) must […]
The Gasabo intermediate court has fined King Faisal Hospital and Kanombe Military hospital for cutting off the breast of a patient after mistakenly diagnosing her with a level 2 cancer. The two national referral hospitals must pay the patient Rwf100 million (over US$100,000) with immediate effect for what the court described as “medical negligence”. The […]
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, enters a courtroom at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing in his corruption trial, April 5, 2021. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)
“The split screen,” in its Israeli context, originally referred to an infamous, surreal 2002 television broadcast in which news coverage of a deadly terror attack in Jerusalem was aired directly alongside an ongoing Haifa-Kiryat Gat soccer match.
But on Monday the term applied to the still surreal, but far less macabre, media coverage of the opening of the evidentiary stage of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial, which was intercut with the broadcast of his political allies seeking to convince the president to give him first crack at forming a ruling coalition after last month’s inconclusive elections.
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Ilan Yeshua, CEO of the
Wallah website, goes on the stand before the Jerusalem district court on Tuesday to continue his testimony in the bribes case against PM Binyamin Netanyahu. On Monday, he testified that the website obeyed the prime minister’s demands for favorable coverage in return for benefits granted the owner of
Wallah and the Bezeq telecommunications company. But first, Prosecutor Liat Ben-Ari in her opening statement charged Netanyahu with the “illegitimate” use of his power to improperly benefit major media owners in order to advance his personal interests.”
The prime minister hit back by accusing the prosecution itself of an abuse of its power “to topple a strong prime minister from the right wing. This is what a coup attempt looks like,” he charged.