In a Channel 12 interview, State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan pushes back against claims that his office is framing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by indicting him in three criminal cases.
“I organized the conversations between Netanyahu and [Yedioth Ahronoth publisher] Noni Mozes?” Nitzan asks rhetorically, referring to the talks that formed the basis of Case 2000 — a suspected illicit quid pro quo deal between Netanyahu and Mozes that would have seen the prime minister weaken a rival daily, the Sheldon Adelson-backed freebie Israel Hayom, in return for more favorable coverage from Yedioth.
“I don’t understand this ‘he only smoked a few cigars,’ argument. The indictment filed against Netanyahu talks about NIS 700,000 worth of cigars,” Nitzan says
The state prosecutor also rejects the claim that Netanyahu’s legal fate should be decided at the ballot box.
“In a modern-day democracy, the legal fate of a defendant is not decided at the ballot box,” Nitzan insists.
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