The court dismissed the first application. Prime Minister’s lawyer stressed that Netanyahu must address security and national issues.
On Sunday, the District Court in Jerusalem granted the request of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to postpone his interrogation within the trial of a corruption case. He first rejected it on Friday, but for new reasons provided by Netanyahu, the head of the Israeli secret service Mosad David Barne and the head of the military intelligence finally decided to postpone hearing. According to the report of Reuters and AFP, TASR reports this.
“Based on the explanations we have partially complied with applications and in this stage we cancel the planned hearing of Mr. Netanyahu this week,” said the Jerusalem court published by the Prime Minister’s Likud.
The Court of First Instance argued in Friday’s decision that Netanyahu’s request “in its current form does not sufficiently justify or detailed justification for the cancellation of hearing”. In the application, the Prime Minister cited “Regional and Global Development” as a reason after a 12-day military conflict with Iran and continued fighting in the Gaza Strip.
The Prime Minister apparently needs to deal with more important things
AFP reported on Thursday that Netanyahu’s lawyer asked the court to order the cancellation of the interrogations. The lawyer argued that the Prime Minister must now “devote all his time and energy to the management of national, diplomatic and security issues of the highest priority”.
In the process that has been postponed several times since its commencement in May 2020, Netanyahu denies any mistake. In the first case, he and his wife Sara are accused of accepting in exchange for political benefits from billionaires of luxury goods worth more than $ 260,000, such as cigars, jewelry and champagne. In the next two cases, Netanyahu is accused of trying to influence the news of two Israeli media to create a more positive image of it.
US President Donald Trump described a case led in Israel against the Prime Minister as a “witch hunt” on Wednesday. In a report published on the Truth Social platform, he stated that the trial of Netanyahu “should be abolished immediately, or that (after the war with Iran) as a great hero, a great hero was to be granted.
