Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is accused of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in a trial that began four years ago. He has denied the charges. By Patrick Kingsley and Aaron Boxerman ...

TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu testified Tuesday in his corruption trial, becoming the country’s first sitting leader to take the stand as a criminal defendant and ...

"I waited eight years for this moment, to say the truth," Netanyahu said, standing at a podium, with his son Avner and several members of his Likud party seated on the courtroom benches.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is now juggling his own trial on corruption charges along with the war in Gaza and a new security challenge in neighboring Syria.

Netanyahu says he has waited eight years to be able to tell his story and expressed outrage at the way witnesses had been ...

On Tuesday, the 75-year-old became the first sitting Israeli leader to appear as a defendant in a criminal case when he took the witness stand and began testifying in his own defence. Netanyahu ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stand on Tuesday in his long-running trial for alleged corruption, setting off what’s expected to be a weekslong spectacle that will draw ...

He has repeated similar sentiments so far on the stand. Netanyahu was indicted in 2019, the first time a sitting prime minister has been charged in a criminal case, and the trial began in 2020.