{"id":53037,"date":"2019-12-03T14:16:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53037"},"modified":"2019-12-03T14:25:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:25:23","slug":"israeli-pm-netanyahu-officially-indicted-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53037","title":{"rendered":"Israeli PM Netanyahu Officially Indicted For Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JERUSALEM, Dec 3 (NNN-MA&#8217;AN) &#8212; An indictment, charging Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, with corruption, was officially submitted on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israeli Attorney General, Avihai Mendelblit, publicly released the indictment, allowing a period of 30 days, during which the long-time leader may request parliament to grant him immunity from standing trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 77-page indictment, charges Netanyahu with bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, in three separate corruption scandals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the indictment, the trial will be held at the Jerusalem District Court. The date of the trial has yet to be published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The document contains a list of 333 witnesses the prosecution may call, to testify against Netanyahu, including Sheldon Adelson, an American Jewish business magnate and one of U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s major donors, and Arnon Milchan, an Israeli billionaire and Hollywood producer, and other businessmen and politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Netanyahu has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, saying the indictment is part of &#8220;an orchestrated witch hunt.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is the first Israeli prime minister, who was served with an indictment, while being in office.&#8211; NNN-MA&#8217;AN  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM, Dec 3 (NNN-MA&#8217;AN) &#8212; An indictment, charging Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, with corruption, was officially submitted on Monday. Israeli Attorney General, Avihai Mendelblit, publicly released the indictment, allowing a period of 30 days, during which the long-time leader may request parliament to grant him immunity from standing trial. The 77-page indictment, charges Netanyahu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217,194,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53037"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}