Jerusalem - Israeli prosecutors accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of treating favours as"currency" on Monday at the opening of a corruption trial which, along with an inconclusive election, has clouded his prospects of remaining in office.
"The relationship between Netanyahu and the defendants became currency, something that could be traded," prosecutor Liat Ben-Ari said in presenting so-called Case 4000, concerning the premier's alleged ties to the owners of an Israeli news-site.Netanyahu left before the first prosecution witness testified in the first such trial of a sitting Israeli prime minister. He has described himself as the victim of a politically motivated witch-hunt.
Rivlin told delegates from Netanyahu's conservative Likud party that ethical considerations could factor in his decision, apparently alluding to Netanyahu's trial. At Jerusalem District Court, prosecutors sought to establish that Netanyahu granted regulatory favours to Israel's leading telecommunications company, Bezeq Telecom Israel BEZQ.TA, in return for more positive coverage of him and his wife Sara on a company news website known as Walla.
An Israeli thief. He's lucky it's not here in South Africa because Ramaphosa his stooges could have forced him to step aside before the court does anything. That's how Ramaphosa has changed our legal system. I don't hear all the racist NGOs, market spinners and the media fighting
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