Labor chief says judge-investigator texts mustn’t distract from Netanyahu

Labor party chairman Avi Gabbay says a report that a judge and an investigator coordinated over the remand of suspects in the so-called Case 4000 are “serious,” but should not divert attention from the police recommendations to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“A judge who coordinates remand extensions cannot extend the remand of a single other person, just as a prime minister with [police] recommendations [that he stand trial] for bribery cannot continue in his position,” says Gabbay at the weekly Zionist Union faction meeting.

Gabbay says the Channel 10 report on the alleged collusion “caused serious damage to the holy of holies, the rule of law.”

“But let us not be misled. Even on a day like this in which we are looking at the jaw-dropping texts [between the judge and investigator], we cannot forget what the main issue is,” he says, referring to the allegations against the prime minister.

— Marissa Newman