{"id":2117,"date":"2025-10-15T16:38:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.bdexpress.news\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:38:54","slug":"netanyahu-back-in-court-over-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/netanyahu-back-in-court-over-corruption-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu back in court over corruption charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Israeli <em>Channel 12<\/em> reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to appear before court on Wednesday to face corruption charges, a day after former US President Donald Trump called on Israeli President Isaac Herzog to grant him a pardon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, are accused of receiving luxury gifts worth more than 700,000 shekels ($210,000) \u2014 including \u201cpremium cigars, jewellery, and bottles of champagne\u201d \u2014 from wealthy businessmen in exchange for political favours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prime minister is also facing two additional cases involving allegations that he sought to influence media coverage in his favour through two Israeli media outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, Trump renewed his call to \u201cforgive Netanyahu\u201d, saying that it is time to close the chapter on these cases that have been pursuing him for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.bdexpress.news\/trump-says-hamas-will-be-forced-to-disarm-or-we-will-disarm-them\/\">Trump says it should take place in a \u2018reasonable period of time\u2019 amid questions over group\u2019s status<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-bdexpress-en-bdexpress-news-news-latest-news-breaking-news wp-block-embed-bdexpress-en-bdexpress-news-news-latest-news-breaking-news\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"V2P3MHDGlX\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.bdexpress.news\/trump-says-hamas-will-be-forced-to-disarm-or-we-will-disarm-them\/\">Trump says it should take place in a \u2018reasonable period of time\u2019 amid questions over group\u2019s status<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Trump says it should take place in a \u2018reasonable period of time\u2019 amid questions over group\u2019s status&#8221; &#8212; bdexpress | en.bdexpress.news | News, latest news, breaking news\" src=\"https:\/\/en.bdexpress.news\/trump-says-hamas-will-be-forced-to-disarm-or-we-will-disarm-them\/embed\/#?secret=j9a3seRqK9#?secret=V2P3MHDGlX\" data-secret=\"V2P3MHDGlX\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Channel 12 reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to appear before court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[270,253,267,264,255,254,269,251],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-corruption","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-international","tag-israel","tag-netanyahu","tag-trump","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}