Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared again Monday at the Tel Aviv District Court to continue his testimony in the defense’s re-examination phase in his corruption trial. According to the report in Walla, his lawyers questioned him about details in the so-called “cases 1000, 2000 and 4000,” in which he is charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Court sources believe his testimony could wrap up within days.
The main focus of the hearing was Case 2000, the Netanyahu-Moses affair. Netanyahu’s lawyer, Amit Hadad, returned to earlier interrogations and criticized how the matter had been presented to the prime minister during the investigation. Hadad referred to a segment of the Moshe Yaalon? No, the article says Moshe Moses? Actually it identified the quote from the interrogation of Mozes, in which a later period was mentioned, including a possible 2003 date, and reminded Netanyahu that he had said he did not remember such a meeting with Mozes.
The session grew increasingly tense as defense questions were repeatedly interrupted by objections from prosecution representatives in the courtroom. In response, Netanyahu asked to speak and launched a direct attack on the conduct of the investigators and prosecutors.
Speaking from the witness stand, Netanyahu said, “I am a law student inside this absurd pipe.” He argued that the investigators had shown him a misleading picture, citing Nir Hefetz, and claimed this caused him to give two answers to the court instead of one. “If they had not done that, I would have given one answer: that it did not happen,” he said, adding that he was being trapped deliberately in order to damage his credibility before the judges.
