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Netanyahu wants pre-trial hearing broadcast live

“After a three-year flood of tendentious, partial media leaks, the time has come for the public to hear everything, including my side,” says Israeli prime minister.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press regarding the extension of Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and its Jewish communities, Sept. 10, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press regarding the extension of Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and its Jewish communities, Sept. 10, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing for his pre-trial hearing next week to be broadcast live on Israeli television.

“After a three-year flood of tendentious, partial media leaks, the time has come for the public to hear everything, including my side,” Netanyahu said in a social-media video posted on Thursday, reported Reuters.

“I am therefore asking the attorney general to open up the hearing for live broadcast. ... You know that transparency delivers the truth.”

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has said that he intends to file fraud and breach of trust charges against Netanyahu, pending on a preliminary hearing

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin tasked Netanyahu on Wednesday with forming a government, but so far he lacks the required 61-seat majority.

Mandelblit’s office did not immediately respond to Netanyahu’s request.

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