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Netanyahus court statements stores effort control – Israel politics

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's application to shorten the number of certificates of corruption procedures every week contradicts his demands for more and exhaustive meetings.

After the Netanyahu defense team's Thursday proposal for planning Netanyahu corruption procedural statements on Mondays and Wednesdays, the public prosecutor found that the defense had also tried to testify at least another 33 hearings.

“This is a testimony about unprecedented scope, since in the entire history of Israeli law, in which a defendant said in the primary certificate of such a large number of sessions, no case in the entire history of Israeli law,” said the accused “,” said law enforcement.

The public prosecutor said that the certificate was already unusually long, with only eleven hearings since December 10, and if Netanyahus application was granted, the process could take another eight weeks – if there were no other hearing cancellations. In the best case, a newly configured testimony plan would mean that Netanyahu's testimony would end in May.

“On the one hand he [Netanyahu] tries to testify an extraordinary length of the certificate; On the other hand, he tries to ensure that the hearing is not carried out efficiently, but takes many months, “said the public prosecutor.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will come to the Court Court Court Court on February 17, 2025 before the start of his certificate. (Credit: Gideon Markowicz/Pool)

The proposal of the defense that other witnesses are heard between the certificates of the Prime Minister would contaminate Netanyah's certificate and disrupt its continuity.

The complex political situation

In a closed hearing on Wednesday, the defense made the application in view of the demands of the Netanyahu management position during the war and a complex political situation. The public prosecutor said on Sunday that Netanyahu had repeatedly said that he could continue as a prime minister and accused.

Netanyahu had previously asked the court to prevent two hearings per week in December, but had been rejected by the judges. The court then found that there was no compelling reason to shorten the weekly schedule, although in practice there was no week with three hearings by Netanyahu.

“The things that were true in December 2024 are also true in February 2025,” said the public prosecutor.

The Netanyahu team also asked on Thursday that the hearing was canceled on Monday, but on Sunday the court decided that the session would last as planned. A separate decision would be issued about the proposal for a shortened weekly schedule.