The Jerusalem District Court on Monday canceled a court hearing in the trial of former opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu scheduled for Tuesday in order to weigh the ramifications of the allegations against police for illegally spying on individuals involved in the cases, including key witnesses.
The court gave the prosecution until Tuesday at 2 p.m. to respond to questions regarding the allegations.
Judges are scheduled to meet on Wednesday to hold a discussion on how to move forward with the trial.
Also on Monday, Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev announced that he is establishing a state commission of inquiry into the spying allegations.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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So Bibi is sort of being “hoisted with his own petard” as Shakespeare’s would say in Hamlet. The phrase’s meaning is that a bomb-maker is lifted off the ground with the unforeseen blowback from his own explosive. Sort of poetic justice that spying technology that he had approved for sale overseas to foreign police and intelligence agencies, including some of the world’s most despotic regimes, was used against him by his own police.