The gruelling judicial schedule will keep Netanyahu’s legal woes firmly in the national consciousness and conversation – and continue to raise questions over whether he can keep serving while simultaneously standing trial
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, on Jan. 19, 2020.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial will resume in earnest in January, with thrice-weekly evidentiary hearings set to begin then, a Jerusalem court decided Sunday.
Netanyahu is charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in a series of scandals in which he is alleged to have received lavish gifts from billionaire friends, and exchanged regulatory favours with media moguls for more agreeable coverage of himself and his family. Netanyahu’s lawyer also asked for a delay in the proceedings because of the virus, saying mask-wearing impeded his job of questioning witnesses.The trial resumes as Netanyahu faces widespread anger over his government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.
While Israel has pledged billions of dollars worth of aid, it hasn’t all been doled out to those in need, and a plan to give a stipend to all Israelis, even the wealthy, has been panned by the country’s leading economists. The first and second round of restrictions has battered the economy and sent unemployment skyrocketing to more than 20 per cent, up from 3.9 per cent before the outbreak.
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