US EditionNetanyahu 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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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared in court in Tel Aviv again today for a hearing in his long-running corruption trial, which has been ongoing since May 2020. The prime minister smiled as protesters shouted at him and his entourage, which included several ministers from the conservative Likud party, as they made their way to the court. This comes after...
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