Amnon Abramovitch of Channel 2 News is reporting that another investigation has recently been started quietly into some affairs of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The nature of the investigation has been kept secret, but is being conducted by the Israel Police unit Lahav 443 and is being coordinated with the Attorney General and others at the highest levels of law enforcement.
Again, Netanyahu is moving from crisis to crisis, and this time he has not yet even finished with the previous crisis.
I've said it before, I don't think a sitting prime minister should be investigated, excluding issues of breaches of national security, treason and acting against the State. I cannot imagine how Netanyahu can possibly function and rule effectively with all these investigations being opened against his family one after the other. He should not be immune from the law, but the law should not prevent him from functioning in his capacity as Prime Minister. All these financial investigations could be frozen until he is no longer in office, and then he could be made to answer for them and stand trial if necessary. I would even say that any relevant Statute of Limitations would also be frozen until an investigation can be continued at the later point in time.
And I say this despite my opinion that Netanyahu has been Prime Minister of Israel for long enough and it is time for him to retire and move on to other roles. Until he takes my advice, and for as long as he remains Prime Minister, he has a country to run. He should not be bogged down and distracted with investigations into how many bottles he or his wife returned, how much ice cream he ate, how many lawn chairs they bought, and who paid for a flight. Don't let him off the hook, but wait until later to deal with these things.
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