Yair Netanyahu summoned by cops to testify in diplomatic passports probe

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been summoned to give testimony to police investigators in the diplomatic passports affair that has been under investigation for a year.

The investigation being led by the police’s Lahav 433 major crimes unit is looking into the allegedly unlawful issuance of diplomatic passports by the Foreign Ministry to several prominent members of the ruling Likud party who did not meet the criteria to receive them, as well as Yair Netanyahu.

The prime minister’s Florida-based son is not a suspect in the affair, but he will provide testimony in the coming days, as he is currently in the country, Kan news reported.

The investigation began in mid-2024, and led 433 investigators to raid Foreign Ministry offices and confiscate materials last August.

The foreign minister at the time, current Energy Minister Eli Cohen, said then that only three heads of local authorities were eligible for the diplomatic passports because they needed them for international relations work as part of their jobs. He said that Yair Netanyahu was given a diplomatic passport for security reasons.