Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be required to testify three times a week in his corruption trial starting in November, the judges overseeing the case announced Tuesday, citing the need to speed up the process, according to Zionist media.
The trial has been going on since 2020, and Netanyahu has been testifying twice a week since December, with countless of these hearings canceled or cut short for various reasons.
The Occupied Jerusalem District Court judges said that four hearings per week will be held starting in November, and Netanyahu will testify in three of them until the end of his cross-examination, “in light of the current need to advance the trial.”
The Zionist court system is currently on recess, and the next hearings are scheduled for September. Netanyahu missed the last scheduled hearings in July ahead of the recess due to food poisoning.
The judges also ordered an examination of the idea of holding future hearings at a courthouse in Beit Shemesh, rather than at the Tel Aviv District Court, where they have been held until now. The hearings can’t be held at the Jerusalem District Court building during the war since it lacks an adequate bomb shelter, the Zionist media added.
Source: Israeli media
