Netanyahu’s ‘Big Lie’ Will End Rule of Law in Israel

Jan 5 2023 by The Daily Beast

 
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JERUSALEM—Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, who is on trial for corruption, ended his first week back in office embroiled in two new legal entanglements of his own creation.

On Thursday at the Supreme Court, he was forced to defend appointing a convicted tax fraud to two key posts, that of minister of interior and of minister of health.

A few hours earlier, across a Jerusalem rose garden at the Knesset, Israel's parliament,...

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