PM expected to be questioned after confidants arrested in new graft case

Published: 19 February 2018

Last updated: 4 March 2024

As Netanyahu prepares to be questioned about ‘Case 4000’, his Education Minister Bennett sets himself as challenger to the PM

Senior Bezeq officials and Netanyahu associates arrested in graft probe (Times of Israel)
Police act on 'new evidence' in Case 4000, which allegedly involves favourable news coverage for PM in exchange for benefits for national phone company

Netanyahu confidants arrested in Israeli telecom giant graft case, PM expected to be questioned (Haaretz)
Police on Sunday arrested two of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's confidants and several senior officials at Bezeq, the Israeli telecommunications giant, as part of the ongoing corruption investigation, dubbed 'Case 4000' involving the company and its possible relationship with the prime minister. Netanyahu is expected to be questioned in connection to the case

Israeli education minister prepares for Netanyahu’s succession battle (A-lMonitor)
Education Minister Naftali Bennett, the only Cabinet minister to criticise Benjamin Netanyahu after police recommended indicting him, is preparing for the fight to lead the Israeli right in the post-Netanyahu era

Tel Aviv protesters call on PM to quit after police recommend indictment (Times of Israel)
Around a thousand demonstrators march against Netanyahu over corruption allegations, pledge to 'fight until he resigns'

Photo: Bennett speaks to Defence Minister Avigdor Liberman (left), July 2016 (Abir Sultan/Reuters)