{"id":33648,"date":"2019-03-01T03:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33648"},"modified":"2019-03-01T03:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:22:26","slug":"israels-benjamin-netanyahu-to-be-indicted-on-corruption-charges-pending-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33648","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Benjamin Netanyahu to be indicted on corruption charges, pending hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Jerusalem (CNN)<\/cite>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be indicted on bribery and breach of trust charges arising from three separate corruption investigations, pending a hearing, Israel&#8217;s attorney general announced Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The announcement, so close to April&#8217;s general election, marks a dramatic moment in Israeli politics and is a major blow to Netanyahu as he seeks a fifth term in office.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">He has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, denouncing the investigations as a media-led witch hunt. In a prime time broadcast shortly after the announcement, Netanyahu blamed the left for pressuring Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit &#8212; a Netanyahu appointee &#8212; to issue an indictment.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerusalem (CNN)Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be indicted on bribery and breach of trust charges arising from three separate corruption investigations, pending a hearing, Israel&#8217;s attorney general announced Thursday evening.The announcement, so close to April&#8217;s general election, marks a dramatic moment in Israeli politics and is a major blow to Netanyahu as he seeks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}