Yehudit Tirosh, representing the State Attorney’s Office, tells the Jerusalem District Court that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot be allowed to “dictate the schedule” of his trial, in response to the prime minister’s request to postpone his testimony.
Responding to the request by Netanyahu’s defense team for a two-and-a-half-month delay to the start of his testimony in court, Tirosh points out that the court in July gave the prime minister five months to prepare for his testimony.
“We were at war in July in Gaza and with attacks from the north, and we’re at war now,” says Tirosh.
“The prime minister can’t dictate the schedule for his trial and testimony. We don’t know what will be in another 10 weeks, either.”
Judge Rivka Friedman-Feldman asks Netanyahu’s defense attorney whether Netanyahu will be ready by March 2025, when he has requested his testimony begin, to which the lawyer says he cannot know.
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