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Netanyahu in Court for Graft Trial Appearance
Netanyahu faces allegations of accepting over $260,000 in luxury gifts and seeking favorable media coverage during a trial that began in May 2020, court records show.
- On Wednesday, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to a Tel Aviv court for the latest hearing in his long-running corruption trial.
- Accused of corruption, Benjamin Netanyahu faces allegations including luxury gifts worth more than $260,000 from billionaires and efforts to influence coverage from two Israeli media outlets.
- The case has international ramifications, including an ICC arrest warrant as Netanyahu is subject to charges over war crimes in Gaza, with massive protests abating after the October 7, 2023 attack.
- It comes after US President Donald Trump suggested on Monday that Netanyahu should be pardoned in his corruption cases, as he told the Knesset on October 13, 2025.
- Netanyahu's long tenure and reform push frame the broader stakes as he proposed judicial reforms during his current term and denies wrongdoing, calling it a political plot.
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The Tel Aviv court resumed, not without difficulty, the hearing of the Prime Minister accused of corruption, two days after Donald Trump urged the Israeli president to terminate his trial.
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·Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu, his wife, are accused of having accepted luxury products worth more than $260,000 from billionaires in exchange for political favors.
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