MK asks court to order probe into PM submarine affair

Zionist Union MK Erel Margalit has served a petition to the High Court with 19,083 signatures, demanding the justices intervene and demand a criminal investigation into suspicions surrounding Israel’s purchase of German submarines.

Calling the decision of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit not to pursue a criminal probe into the matter “unreasonable in the extreme,” Margalit asks the judges to order a probe into the matter, alongside a current criminal probe against Netanyahu over gifts he allegedly received from businessmen.

In the submarine affair, Netanyahu is suspected of a conflict of interest after his personal lawyer was found to have acted on behalf of German shipbuilder Thyssenkrupp, from which Israel contracted to buy a number of military vessels.

The petition was launched last month along with attorney and Zionist Union political operative Eldad Yaniv.