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Yair Netanyahu provides police testimony in diplomatic passports affair
Jeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter
Yair Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)
Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, gave testimony today to police investigators from the Lahav 433 major crimes unit in the diplomatic passports affair, Hebrew media reports.
The investigation is looking into the allegedly unlawful issuance of diplomatic passports by the Foreign Ministry at the behest of then-foreign minister Eli Cohen to several people who did not meet the criteria to receive them, including Yair Netanyahu and three mayors or regional council heads.
Yair Netanyahu is not himself a suspect in the affair.
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