{"id":39655,"date":"2019-06-07T12:23:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39655"},"modified":"2019-06-07T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:23:04","slug":"netanyahu-fails-to-get-postponement-of-corruption-court-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39655","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu fails to get postponement of corruption court hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1507491\/middle-east\" readability=\"44\">\n<p>\nJERUSALEM: Israel\u2019s attorney general on Thursday rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s request to postpone a court hearing over corruption allegations against him, media reports said.<br \/>The prosecutor\u2019s office said Netanyahu had requested \u201cthat the hearing be delayed due to the dissolution of the Knesset and the elections due on September 17\u201d to a date after the polls, the Ynet news site said.<br \/>After considering the matter, the prosecutor\u2019s office said \u201cnothing justified agreeing to the request to change the dates fixed for the hearing,\u201d it added.<br \/>Netanyahu is facing possible indictment for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in the months ahead and is reportedly seeking legislation in the new parliament that would result in him being granted immunity.<br \/>Last month, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit pushed back to October the date by which Netanyahu needed to respond to the allegations against him.<br \/>The prosecutor\u2019s office stressed that the hearing scheduled for October 2 and 3 would not be delayed \u201cnot even for one day.\u201d<br \/>\u201cThe new elections constitute exceptional circumstances to which exceptional attention must be accorded,\u201d Netanyahu responded on Thursday.<br \/>Netanyahu called new elections late last month after failing to form a coalition.<br \/>Israel will now head to the polls again in September, just over five months after an April election that saw Netanyahu and his right-wing and religious allies win a majority.<br \/>Netanyahu is also on track to become Israel\u2019s longest-serving prime minister in July, surpassing founding father David Ben-Gurion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: Israel\u2019s attorney general on Thursday rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s request to postpone a court hearing over corruption allegations against him, media reports said.The prosecutor\u2019s office said Netanyahu had requested \u201cthat the hearing be delayed due to the dissolution of the Knesset and the elections due on September 17\u201d to a date after the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39655","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\/39655","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=39655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}