The State Attorney's Office on Sunday filed a corrected indictment in one of the corruption cases against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after a Jerusalem court accepted a petition from Netanyahu's legal team regarding a number of details in the indictment.
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Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister, is accused of accepting improper gifts and seeking to trade favors with media moguls in exchange for positive coverage. He denies any wrongdoing.
The amended version of the so-called Case 4,000 removed all language referring to Netanyahu's family, instead zeroing in on the premier alone.
Additionally, the Jerusalem District Court had ordered the prosecution to come up with a list of instances in which the leader allegedly asked media tycoon Shaul Elovitch for favorable coverage in the Elovitch-owned Walla news site.
The detailed list, now annexed to the indictment, includes 315 incidents relating to 230 specific requests by Netanyahu to shift the tone and substance of Walla's coverage in favor of the Likud leader.
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The final pretrial hearing is set for Jan. 13.
In 2019, Netanyahu's wife Sara admitted criminal wrongdoing over the misuse of state funds to order catered meals, in a plea bargain carrying no jail time.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
