Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara says she is willing to hold talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s defense team in his corruption trial for a potential plea bargain, if there are no preconditions and if the court proceedings aren’t affected in the meantime.
Last week, President Isaac Herzog’s legal adviser invited the attorney general and Netanyahu’s lawyer to the President’s Residence to begin discussions to reach “agreements” over the premier’s ongoing criminal trial, meaning a plea bargain.
A letter signed by Baharav-Miara’s assistant says the attorney general and State Attorney Amit Aisman appreciate Herzog’s efforts to mediate a deal in the case, adding that prosecutors are “willing to hold discussions with the defense to devise a worthy plea bargain, if there are no preconditions to the talks and without harming the trial’s progress.”
The letter declines to go into further details of the potential talks.
Netanyahu’s lawyers have not yet given their response to Herzog’s invitation.
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