Benjamin Netanyahu
Macron, Johnson and other leaders have sent personal letters to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging him not to apply Israeli law to Judea and Samaria.
Though the so-called “French law” cannot apply to Benjamin Netanyahu’s current trial, it is expected to be opposed by MKs from Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party.
The prime minister outlines Israel’s five biggest challenges: rebuilding the economy; preparing for a second wave of the coronavirus; security and defense; the threat of the International Criminal Court; and applying Israeli law to the Jordan Valley and Judea and Samaria.
Translated excerpts from an interview conducted in Hebrew by Boaz Golan at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem shortly after the first hearing of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial.
Jerusalem District Court sets the next session of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial for July 19.
Ahead of his arraignment in the first-ever criminal trial of a sitting Israeli premier, the Jewish state’s longest-serving prime minister accuses the left of “stitching together” charges against him after having failed to remove him at the ballot box.
Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin says it’s not only the premier, but the future of Israeli democracy and law enforcement that is going on trial.
“There’s a vast interest to visit Greece,” said the Israeli prime minister. “We want to resume flights and tourism connections to countries that are in a similar situation as ours.”
Ahead of Iran’s annual Quds Day, Tehran’s chief ayatollah releases an anti-Semitic poster and tweets that Israel’s “Zionist regime” is a “cancerous tumor” • U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo condemns the “disgusting remarks.”
The decision comes amid international outcry from the European Union, members of the U.S. Democractic Party and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Attorneys Amit Haddad and Micha Fetman accuse prosecutor Judith Tirosh of participating in a media campaign against the prime minister.
During the swearing-in ceremony, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared to the Knesset that “the public wants a unity government, and that’s what the public will get. We decided to avoid a fourth election that would have wasted 2 billion shekels.”
