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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second right, and Israel's President Isaac Herzog, second left, attend a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Israel Hayom via AP, Pool)
April 27, 2026, 3:28 am
Pushing a plea deal for Netanyahu, Herzog takes a risky bet on his pareve approach
The president is known for preferring quiet consensus building over bellicose bombast. That style just might resolve the festering issue of the PM’s trial — but it will likely fail, damaging public faith in him
By Ben Sales
A massive oil leak caused by the rupture of a Europe Asia Pipeline Company line in the Evrona nature reserve in 2014. (Environmental Protection Ministry)
January 16, 2025, 10:14 am
In plea deal, oil company to pay just $400,000 for Israel’s worst-ever spill
Court upholds convictions for Europe Asia Pipeline Company and senior employee over burst pipe that caused enduring damage to southern Israel’s Evrona Nature Reserve in 2014
By Sue Surkes
Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri at a Shas faction meeting in Knesset, January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 24, 2023, 6:27 pm
Deri v. High Court: What did he actually pledge in his 2022 plea bargain?
The Shas leader was banned from holding ministerial office, partly for giving a judge the ‘false impression’ he was retiring from politics. He contends he said no such thing
By Jeremy Sharon
Leah Koppel and her three children in Israel in November 2021. (Social Media)
December 24, 2022, 5:36 pm
Israeli-American who claimed domestic abuse led her to ‘abduct’ kids is released
Leah Koppel, 60, left the US eight years ago for Israel with her three children, saying her spouse had been abusing them; a US court closed her case this week
By ToI Staff
Former minister Yaakov Litzman in court for a hearing on his plea bargain, at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, June 9, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 8, 2022, 7:24 pm
Litzman gets minor fine, no jail for shielding alleged pedophile Leifer from justice
Lenient sentence comes as part of plea deal; ex-health minister has admitted to unsuccessfully working to undermine extradition of accused sexual predator Malka Leifer to Australia
By ToI Staff
Former minister Yaakov Litzman in court for a hearing on his plea bargain, at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, June 9, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 9, 2022, 8:37 pm
Court accepts plea deal for ex-minister Litzman in pedophile case
Former UTJ head to avoid jail time as part of deal, serve suspended sentence, pay fine of NIS 3,000; prosecution says Litzman’s actions ‘did not cause damage’
By ToI Staff
A composite image of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and former Bezeq controlling shareholder, Shaul Elovitch. (Flash90: Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)
March 22, 2022, 3:05 pm
In first deal reached in Case 4000, Elovitch’s Eurocom to confess to all charges
Company admits to bribe, fraud and breach of trust and will pay a NIS 400,000 fine; Netanyahu to attend court Wednesday as key witness Shlomo Filber begins testimony
By ToI Staff
Likud's Haim Katz arrives at the Magistrate's Court in Rishon Lezion, February 7, 2022 (Flash90)
February 7, 2022, 12:43 pm
Likud’s Katz gets suspended sentence as court accepts plea deal in graft case
Court says lawmaker must pay NIS 75,000 fine for ‘conspiring to achieve a legitimate target via illegitimate means,’ but rules his actions did not constitute corruption
By ToI Staff
Shas party leader Aryeh Deri announces he will not be leaving public life, a day after he was sentenced for tax offenses, during a press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on February 2, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 2, 2022, 4:43 pm
Unrepentant Deri vows to return to Knesset, a day after tax offense sentencing
Shas leader claims case went to court only because he’s Sephardic, says he’ll run in next election and ‘there is nothing to prevent it’; judge had said he’d be leaving public life
By ToI Staff
Shas leader Aryeh Deri leaves the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on February 1, 2022 after his conviction on tax offenses. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 1, 2022, 3:53 pm
Court sentences Deri in plea bargain conviction on tax offenses
No longer a lawmaker but still leader of Shas party, politician given 12-month suspended prison term along with NIS 180,000 fine
By ToI Staff
Shas party leader Aryeh Deri leaves the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court after pleading guilty on charges of tax offenses as part of a negotiated plea bargain, on January 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 27, 2022, 6:54 pm
Despite resigning as MK in plea deal, Deri to continue leading Shas Knesset activity
After conviction for tax offenses, Shas leader will still run party’s weekly faction meetings, steer its intricate political life. He just won’t be able to vote, says party source
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and then-prime minister Naftali Bennett. (Menahem Kahana/AFP; Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
January 26, 2022, 6:02 am
Bennett mocks Netanyahu for plea deal talks after ex-PM criticizes COVID policy
As opposition head blasts gov’t decision to cancel quarantine for children exposed at school, PM snipes: ‘Nice to see he stepped away from personal affairs to spread hysteria’
By ToI Staff
Former MK Aryeh Deri, leader of the Shas party, arrives for a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on January 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 25, 2022, 2:18 pm
No longer an MK, Deri convicted of tax offenses in plea bargain
Shas party leader already resigned as part of agreement to avoid moral turpitude charge; prosecutors seek NIS 180,000 fine and 12-month suspended sentence
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu issues a video statement on the corruption cases against him, January 24, 2022. (Twitter screenshot)
January 24, 2022, 9:21 pm
Netanyahu says he didn’t agree to ‘turpitude’ in plea talks, will keep leading Likud
Statement issued after negotiations on deal in graft cases said to collapse, with Mandelblit notifying ex-PM’s lawyers that talks will have to wait for next AG
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, later attorney general, during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, September 21, 2014. (AP/Menahem Kahana, Pool/File)
January 23, 2022, 2:52 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 23 – Debating the pros and cons of a Netanyahu plea bargain
Editor David Horovitz and political and legal correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn discuss a potential deal for the ex-premier, and cast light on the NSO spyware scandal
By ToI Staff
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