Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided he will testify at his corruption trial on December 2 after the court yesterday rejected his request for a further postponement.
The unsourced report from Channel 12’s political analyst Amit Segal, who is regarded as close to Netanyahu, says he will no longer try and seek to put off his testimony.
Netanyahu’s defense team requested the delay because it said the prime minister has been unable to prepare for giving testimony, set to begin on December 2, due to the time pressures of managing the current multifront conflict.
The court ruled, however, that it had given Netanyahu a long period of time for testimony preparation when it set the date back in July and that it was “not convinced that a substantial change in circumstances has occurred which would justify a change to the date we set in our [original] decision.”
The prime minister was charged in January 2020 with fraud and breach of trust in two cases and bribery, fraud and breach of trust in a third, and the trial began in May of that year.
He denies all the charges against him.
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