Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be questioned again by police on Friday, Hadashot news reports.
Police intend to question the prime minister over his role in the Bezeq probe and the submarine scandal, the report says.
Netanyahu had asked to delay the questioning until after he returns from a visit to the US, but police refused, it says.
In the Bezeq probe, known as case 4000, Netanyahu is suspected of furthering a deal under which Shaul Elovitch, owner of the Walla news site and the controlling shareholder of the Bezeq communications company, swayed coverage of Netanyahu and his family on Walla, in exchange for the Communications Ministry enacting policies potentially worth hundreds of millions of shekels for Elovitch.
The submarine probe, known as case 3000, involves suspicions that state officials were paid bribes to influence a decision to purchase four patrol boats and three Dolphin-class submarines costing a total of 2 billion euros from German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp, despite opposition to the deal from the Defense Ministry.
Two of Netanyahu’s personal lawyers have been detained in the case.
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