Published: 26 May 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Likud ministers at his side, Netanyahu asserts the entire right is on trial (Times of Israel)
DAVID HOROVITZ: PM’s pre-hearing claim that charges against him are part of a coup bid was familiar. What was new was the array of colleagues around him, and a striking omission from his remarks
Netanyahu continues to incite against investigators, and it could end in blood (Haaretz)
GIDI WEITZ: Twenty-eight years ago, Italian judge Giovanni Falcone was killed by the mafia, after a hate campaign deeply reminiscent of the atmosphere surrounding Netanyahu's trial
Netanyahu the defendant serves notice on his judges: you’re next (Haaretz)
YOSSI VERTER: Netanyahu arrived to the first day of his trial surrounded by half of his Likud party after the first session of his new bloated government
The country needs to come first, not Netanyahu (Jerusalem Post)
YAAKOV KATZ: All these allegations have a common denominator that reveal what the public has known about Netanyahu for years: this is a man who enjoys the good things in life and is obsessed with media coverage
Illustration: Amos Biderman
