As Knesset opens, PM pokes fun at criminal cases against him

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens his Likud party’s faction meeting with a joke about the criminal investigations against him.

“Did you miss me?” Netanyahu asks his fellow Likud Knesset members. “Well don’t get used to it,” he quips, referring to the criminal cases.

Netanyahu says he will save most of his public comments for his speech opening the Knesset plenary for its winter session, which is set to take place at 4 p.m.

But he adds, “We have returned to the Knesset with renewed strength and we are ready to conquer the mountain.”

— Raoul Wootliff

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