Israeli court delays Netanyahus testimony in corruption trial citing national security priorities

The Times of Israel reports the Jerusalem District Court has postponed Netanyahu’s planned testimony in his corruption trial this week after the Israeli prime minister argued “diplomatic and national security issues” need his attention.
According to Reuters, the ruling said that new reasons provided by Netanyahu, the head of Israel’s spy agency Mossad and the military intelligence chief justified cancelling the hearings.
The decision comes a day after Trump lambasted the trial itself, calling it a “POLITICAL WITCH HUNT” that the US is “not going to stand for”.

Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reports from Amman.
Alon Pinkas is a former Israeli diplomat and columnist for The Independent newspaper in the UK.
He joins us from Tel Aviv to discuss the latest developments.

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