Israel's Netanyahu acts as though it's business as usual despite corruption investigation

Record ID: 905459

  • Title: Israel's Netanyahu acts as though it's business as usual despite corruption investigation
  • Date: 6th August 2017
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (AUGUST 6, 2017) (REUTERS) ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ENTERING WEEKLY CABINET MEETING VARIOUS OF NETANYAHU AT CABINET MEETING MORE OF MEETING ISRAELI MINISTER OF CULTURE MIRI REGEV, SPEAKING TO REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) ISRAELI MINISTER OF CULTURE MIRI REGEV, SAYING: "The prime minister seems to be calm, I spoke to him yesterday and (he is) confident, as he kept on saying: There will be nothing because there was nothing. I trust the prime minister 100 percent. This media lynch -- by parts of the media and by the opposition, who are doing everything possible to topple the right-wing (government), to topple Netanyahu -- must be stopped. It won't help them, a government should be replaced in elections, not by investigations or headlines."
  • Embargoed: 20th August 2017 11:35
  • Keywords: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu corruption cases cabinet meeting anti-corruption protest
  • Location: JERUSALEM/PETAH TIKVA, ISRAEL
  • City: JERUSALEM/PETAH TIKVA, ISRAEL
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016T0P6BR
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday (August 6) led a weekly meeting of his cabinet ministers in a show of 'business as usual', after a state' witness deal signed with his former chief of staff stirred expectations for his fall among political rivals and in local media.
    Ari Harow, Netanyahu's former chief of staff, has agreed on Friday (August 4) to provide testimony on behalf of the state in two graft cases in which the Israeli leader has been questioned as a suspect, court papers showed on Friday (August 4).
    The four-term premier has denied any wrongdoing. His family spokesman said Netanyahu would withstand what he described as a "witch-hunt" designed to force him from office. Netanyahu dismissed Friday's developments as "the inevitable scandal-of-the-week" in a Facebook post.
    Netanyahu, 67, has been questioned under caution by police in two cases, one dealing with gifts given to him and his family by businessmen, and another related to conversations he held with an Israeli publisher.
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