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Thursday, November 5, 2020
Zohar had threatened to air dirt about attorney general
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleLikud MK Miki Zohar doesn’t specify why police hauled him in this afternoon for questioning, saying only it was on suspicion of extortion and was related to comments he made in a radio interview.
But that’s likely a reference to his threats against the attorney general.
In mid-October, Zohar called for Avichai Mandelblit’s resignation, warning that if he doesn’t resign, more damaging recordings could soon be published after a TV report had aired taped phone conversations in which Mandelblit is heard complaining bitterly about Shai Nitzan, the state attorney at the time, for failing to close a criminal case against him.
The threat that additional recordings would be published if the attorney general doesn’t step down and withdraw charges against the prime minister was condemned by Netanyahu and by Mandelblit himself.
The Times of Israel Community.