BREAKING: Netanyahu’s corruption trial resumes amid growing anger in Israel over his handling of coronavirus crisis.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wears a face mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus as he opens the weekly cabinet meeting, at the foreign ministry, in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 5, 2020.
Netanyahu is charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in a series of scandals in which he is alleged to have received lavish gifts from billionaire friends and exchanged regulatory favors with media moguls for more agreeable coverage of himself and his family. The trial resumes as Netanyahu faces widespread anger over his government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.
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