Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial will resume in January, with evidence hearings 3 times a week to begin, a Jerusalem court on Sunday.
It was not without transparent delay if Netanyahu would be obliged to attend every hearing, some Israeli media reported that he would. In any case, the complaining judicial calendar will firmly keep Netanyahu’s legal problems strongly in national consciousness and verbal exchange, and will continue to raise questions about whether he can continue to serve while continuing his trial.
The court ruling came after the trial hearing, a procedural deliberation that marked the speed of the rest of the process.
The trial began in May after a two-month delay due to considerations of coronavirus. His recovery comes at a time when Netanyahu is facing growing discontent over his handling of the fitness crisis and its economic consequences.
Netanyahu is accused of fraud, failure to accept as true and accept bribes in a series of scandals in which he allegedly won generous gifts from billionaire friends and exchanged regulatory favors with media tycoons for a more fun policy for himself and his family.
Netanyahu denies having acted poorly, and describes the accusations as a media-orchestrated witch hunt conducted through a partial law enforcement system.
At the first hearing in May, just before appearing before the judges, Netanyahu took a court podium and flanked members of his party, denounced the country’s legal establishments in a diatribe of anger.
Netanyahu did appear at Sunday’s hearing.
According to the court, the sentence passed that the evidence phase of the trial would begin in January and take position 3 times a week.
Netanyahu’s lawyer also called for a stay in the process due to the virus, saying that dressed in a mask prevented his paintings from interviewing witnesses.
The trial resumes when Netanyahu faces anger over his government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.
While the country turned out to have stopped a first wave of contagion, it gave the impression of being an early and erratic reopening caused infections to erupt. But even amid the accumulation of new cases, Netanyahu and his emergency government, trained to deal with the crisis, are neglecting numbers and moving forward with their reopening plans and other political priorities.
Since then, it has re-imposed restrictions, adding a weekend lock that is expected to begin later this week.
Israel has recorded nearly 50,000 cases of viruses since the outbreak began, with 406 deaths. More than 21,000 other people have recovered.
Netanyahu and his government have been criticized for a baffling, halting response to the new wave, which has seen daily cases rise to nearly 2,000. It has also been slammed for its handling of the economic fallout of the crisis.
While Israel has pledged billions of dollars in aid, it has not been fully distributed to those in need, and the country’s top economists have criticized a plan to provide an allocation to all Israelis, even the richest. The first and final set of restrictions affected the economy and raised unemployment to more than 20 cents from 3.9 cents centavo_
Although his base remains him, only a handful of aides showed up outside the court to express their help to the Prime Minister, much less than the crowd that met at the opening of the trial.