Netanyahu is the first sitting Israeli leader to take the stand as a criminal defendant. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to the witness stand on Tuesday in his ongoing corruption trial, becoming the first sitting Israeli leader to testify as a criminal defendant.

Netanyahu appears three days a week before the court to respond to the corruption ... whose trial began on May 24, 2020, is the first sitting Israeli leader to take the stand as a criminal ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shouted during his corruption ... Netanyahu, whose trial began on May 24, 2020, is the first sitting Israeli leader to take the stand as a criminal ...

The judges told Netanyahu to watch his tone but themselves took a conciliatory and empathetic tenor as they explained how ...

Netanyahu said that the prosecution ... for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial in which a witness other than the Israeli leader would take the stand. The Tuesday ruling came ...