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Committee to start hearing Netanyahu immunity deliberations next week

Samantha Selinger-Morris
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Published: 24 January 2020

Last updated: 4 March 2024

PM could boycott deliberations in a bid to undermine them, as Knesset speaker Edelstein faces fierce Likud backlash for allowing the vote to form a committee

Netanyahu could boycott immunity deliberations at Knesset — report (Times of Israel)
Channel 12 says belief among Likud is that PM and his lawyers won’t take part in hearings on his request to be shielded from graft charges — in apparent effort to undermine them

Knesset speaker faces fierce Likud backlash for allowing Netanyahu immunity vote (Times of Israel)
Edelstein caught between his own party’s ire, the demands of the law and opposition’s threat of ouster; ‘Now we won’t support him for president,’ vows one Likud official
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Samantha Selinger-Morris

Samantha Selinger-Morris

Samantha Selinger-Morris is a freelance writer and former Fairfax journalist who specialises in features about society and popular culture

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