JERUSALEM POST
Supporters blast Netanyahu trial after report shows bribery case falling apart
Michael Starr
June 23, 2023

After a report was published claiming that a bribery charge against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was collapsing, the Likud leader’s political allies showed their support of him on Thursday evening, attacking the corruption trials against him. “After years of media and legal persecution against the prime minister, a persecution that has turned an entire country, today the judges also say clearly that there is no chance of a conviction for bribery,” said Education Minister Yoav Kisch in response to a Channel 12 report about a secret meeting about Case 4000 between the judges, State Attorney’s Office representatives, and Netanyahu and Bezeq owner Shaul Elovitch’s lawyers. READ MORE

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