{"id":33758,"date":"2019-03-01T21:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33758"},"modified":"2019-03-01T21:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:23:02","slug":"can-netanyahu-avoid-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33758","title":{"rendered":"Can Netanyahu avoid indictment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"74.6086956522\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/benjamin-netanyahu.html\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> is the first sitting Israeli Prime Minister to be put on official notice of a planned prosecution on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/benjamin-netanyahu.html\">Israel<\/a>&#8216;s attorney general made the announcement on Thursday, saying that his office plans to indict Netanyahu on corruption charges.<\/p>\n<p>The four-term prime minister maintains his innocence and has said he will stay in his post and continue to seek reelection in April&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/12\/israel-hold-early-elections-april-181224122527714.html\">general elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A hearing to decide if the prosecution will go ahead won&#8217;t take place until after the vote.<\/p>\n<p>What does the potential indictment mean for Netanyahu&#8217;s political career?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter: Laura Kyle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Akiva Eldar &#8211; Columnist for Washington DC-based Al-Monitor<\/p>\n<p>Yossi Mekelberg &#8211; Professor in International Relations at Regent&#8217;s University, London\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Barak &#8211; Speechwriter for former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and former Israeli President Shimon Peres\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Netanyahu is the first sitting Israeli Prime Minister to be put on official notice of a planned prosecution on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Israel&#8217;s attorney general made the announcement on Thursday, saying that his office plans to indict Netanyahu on corruption charges. The four-term prime minister maintains his innocence and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33758","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=33758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}