The Jerusalem District Court announced yesterday it had canceled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled testimony in his corruption trial for this week following a closed door session at which the heads of the Mossad and IDF military intelligence were also present. Netanyahu requested in court that his scheduled testimony for the next two weeks be delayed due to diplomatic and national security issues, after two such requests were rejected on Friday, the Times of Israel reported. The two intelligence chiefs reportedly explained to the judges why it was necessary to postpone the testimony hearings.
The judges said in their ruling that the explanations provided had substantial additional information over what was presented in the requests on Friday, and therefore decided to cancel this week’s two scheduled hearings. The court decided not to cancel next week’s hearings yet, but said that it would consider well-founded requests to do so if submitted.
