PM Netanyahu Attacks the Indictment Against Him and the Long List of Witnesses: "When there are no allegations, 333 witnesses will also be of no avail" • "The legal schedule has been affected by the political"

• Political Schedule? Netanyahu and Mandelblit // Photo: Emil Salman

PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday attacked the conduct of his prosecution in his Facebook account against the backdrop of the indictment against him to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein earlier today. Netanyahu claimed the transfer of the indictment this morning proves that the press conference led by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit about 10 days ago was influenced by foreign motives.

"If only today the prosecution indicted Prime Minister Netanyahu with the list of witnesses, what would be the way to present the chairman of the Knesset a missing and defective document without a list of witnesses two weeks ago, exactly the day when Benny Gantz returned to the president the mandate to form a government?" Netanyahu posted in a post on his Facebook page.

"The hasty and deficient manner in which the document was submitted to the Speaker of the Knesset, when the indictment was not yet ready, seems to indicate a legal schedule influenced by a political schedule," the Prime Minister continued. "The need for hundreds of witnesses indicates the difficulty of convincing the correctness of the unfounded allegations against the prime minister."

When there is a true claim, there are no 333 witnesses, and when there is no true 333 333 witnesses will also be of no avail. The blown witness list looks like a nostalgic tribute to the Yellow Pages, "Netanyahu attacked." Spend a quarter of a billion shekels in investigations around the world on cigars and some gossip stories in Walla. Unbelievable".

Remember, earlier, Mandelblit handed the indictment against Netanyahu to the Speaker of the Knesset, as required by law. The indictment filed with Edelstein includes the court to which the indictment will be filed if the prime minister is not granted immunity, and in which the list of prosecution witness names is included. Prime Minister Netanyahu, Shaul and Iris Alovich, and Arnon (Noni) Moses, attached to the indictment list of prosecution witnesses, which number 333 witnesses, among which are more than a hundred investigators from the police and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Among the prominent witnesses who will be summoned to testify from the political sphere are Minister Gilad Arden, Minister Tzahi Hanegbi, MK Yair Lapid, Minister Yariv Levin, Minister Zeev Elkin, former MK Eitan Cable, former MK Tzipi Livni and Israeli Ambassador Ron Dramer Also included in the list are Dov Gil-Har Winon Magell journalists.

Key witnesses directly related to the investigation who will be invited to testify are Ilan Yeshua, Ari Haru, David Shimron, David Sharan, Ze'ev Rubinstein, to the State of Israel Nir Hafetz, former Bezeq CEO Stella Handler, Shlomo Pilber, Arnon Milchan, James Packer, Former Secretary of Milchan Hadas Klein, Ilan Shiloh, Netanyahu's cousin Nathan Milikowski, Indian businessman Ratan Tata, former editor-in-chief of Yedioth Ahronoth Ron Yaron and "Israel Today" owners Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson.

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In addition, former senior officials in the public sector will also be invited, including former Prime Minister's Office Harel Locker, former Netanyahu spokeswoman Ran Baretz, former Supreme Court President Yehuda Weinstein, former UZA chief of staff, former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo, head Former GSS Yuval Diskin, former editor-in-chief of Yedioth Ahronoth Ron Yaron and former prime minister adviser Farah Lerner.

The relatives of some of those involved will also be invited to testify, including Orr Elovich, the son of Saul and Iris Elovich and Ilanit Pilver, the wife of Shlomo Pilber.