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Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a court hearing for a case against journalist Ben Caspit at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, on April 23. 2023. (Tomer Appelbaum/POOL)
April 26, 2023, 8:34 pm
Compelled by court, Netanyahu pays back $270,000 gift to late cousin’s estate
Funding for legal fees ruled illicit by High Court in October; coalition tried to push bill allowing PM to keep money but postponed it after pressure by opposition and coalition
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 7, 2023, 6:51 pm
Watchdog group cries foul as Likud proposes law to ease donations to lawmakers
Bill would let public servants more easily receive funding for legal expenses, permitting Netanyahu to keep $270,000 he was supposed to pay back to cousin’s estate
By ToI Staff
Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu attends a vote during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
December 27, 2022, 7:41 pm
High Court nixes Netanyahu request for new hearing on order to return $270,000 gift
Justices uphold ruling that sum to cover legal fees from incoming prime minister’s benefactor and cousin Milikowsky was an illicit offering; Netanyahu must return it by February
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu (center) seen after coalition talks at a hotel in Jerusalem on November 16, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 21, 2022, 10:39 am
Netanyahu asks High Court to rethink order to return late cousin’s $270,000 gift
Justices ruled in October that he couldn’t keep money given by Nathan Milikowsky to cover legal fees, but presumptive incoming PM’s lawyer claims it’s not up to them
By ToI Staff
Likud chief and opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Tel Aviv, October 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 9, 2022, 2:54 pm
Court orders Netanyahu to return late cousin’s $300,000 gift to cover legal fees
Judges rule that money given by Nathan Milikowsky was forbidden gift to public servant, but loan provided by billionaire Spencer Patrich can be paid back according to agreed terms
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit (right). (Flash90)
November 25, 2021, 12:18 am
Netanyahu told to return $900,000 in gifted legal funds from US billionaires
AG Mandelblit tells High Court former PM should give back $300,000 given to him by cousin Nathan Milikowsky and $600,000 he received from real estate mogul Spencer Partrich
By Raoul Wootliff
File: Nathan Milikowsky in 2013, in San Francisco (Drew Altizer Photography)
July 29, 2021, 3:12 am
Netanyahu’s cousin and benefactor Nathan Milikowsky dies at 78
‘I will miss him as a brother,’ opposition head tweets of relative who allegedly gave him $300,000 in illicit gifts and was entangled in his corruption case
By ToI Staff
File: Nathan Milikowsky in 2013, in San Francisco (Drew Altizer Photography)
July 22, 2021, 4:39 pm
High Court says Netanyahu must explain why money from cousin not an illicit gift
Justices order AG, Permits Committee and ex-PM to give reasoning for why the latter doesn’t need to return all of $300,000 he received from Nathan Milikowsky
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, right, during a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on December 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 26, 2021, 10:23 pm
In U-turn, AG says $300K Netanyahu got from cousin is an illicit gift
2 years after saying payment by Nathan Milikowsky is legal, Mandelblit says revelations about their business ties changed his mind; PM will be forced to pay back most of the sum
By Michael Bachner
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends an event at the Dan Hotel in Jerusalem, on February 6, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
October 18, 2020, 11:36 pm
State tells High Court there’s no need to probe Netanyahu on submarines, shares
Responding to petitions against decision to close cases, justice officials say evidence does not support opening of criminal investigations into the affairs
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with his lawyers in the courtroom, as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/ Pool Photo via AP)
October 15, 2020, 10:53 pm
AG says won’t investigate Netanyahu over lucrative stock sales, submarine case
Mandelblit says police, prosecutors believe evidence doesn’t justify formal probe of PM’s sale of shares to cousin at $4m profit, particularly as statute of limitations has expired
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a school in Jerusalem, ahead of the opening of the school year, August 25, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/AFP)
October 5, 2020, 11:54 pm
AG set to close probe into Netanyahu’s lucrative sale of stock in cousin’s firm
Reports say Mandelblit believes there is insufficient evidence regarding claims PM broke the law in sale of shares to Nathan Milikowsky
By ToI Staff
Then-Justice Minister Amir Ohana delivers a speech at a Likud election rally in Or Yehuda, on February 13, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
September 1, 2020, 10:53 pm
Likud minister: AG is ‘wholly invested’ in Netanyahu’s ‘political liquidation’
Amir Ohana claims Mandelblit denied PM’s request to have friends fund his legal defense because he will be ‘disgraced’ if premier is exonerated
By ToI Staff
Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives to a court hearing at the regional labor court in Jerusalem, in the case of Shira Raban, a former employee at the Prime Minister's Residence, December 23, 2019. (Yonatan SIndel/FLASH90)
July 26, 2020, 7:09 pm
Mandelblit questions legality of funding for Sara Netanyahu’s attorney fees
Associates of premier lash out at attorney general, say he’s ‘decided to topple PM at any cost and is charging at him like a train with no brakes’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, in a composite photo. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 1, 2020, 12:49 am
In unprecedented harangue, Netanyahu accuses Mandelblit of scheming to oust him
Watchdog to file incitement complaint against PM over Twitter diatribe against AG, who earlier told comptroller to block NIS 10 million ‘gift’ for PM’s legal defense
By Michael Bachner
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