Netanyahu heads to court as 1st sitting Israeli PM on trial

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was heading to court to face corruption charges in the first criminal trial ever against a sitting Israeli leader. | AP

Netanyahu faces charges of fraud, breach of trust, and accepting bribes in a series of corruption cases stemming from ties to wealthy friends. He is accused of accepting lavish gifts and offering to grant favors to powerful media moguls in exchange for favorable coverage of him and his family. He denies the charges and has lashed out at the media, police, prosecution, and courts of forging a conspiracy to oust him. It comes after years of scandals swirling around the family.

Ahead of the trial, two sets of protests and counter-protests gathered outside the courthouse and the prime minister’s official residence in Jerusalem. Netanyahu supporters outside the District Court in east Jerusalem wore masks with the prime minister’s face and held posters lambasting the attorney general who indicted him. Anti-Netanyahu demonstrators outside his residence blew trumpets and held a banner calling the longtime leader “crime minister.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid accused them of fomenting violence and trying to intimidate the judges. “Netanyahu is trying to drag us into a civil war to save himself from trial,” he told the YNet website.

 

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