“We are standing before an earthquake… We don’t know where things are going, but it’s clear that Israel after the recommendations cannot behave the way Israel did before the recommendations.”
When news outlets began reporting on Tuesday that the police will recommend to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, the Knesset was busy debating the 2019 state budget.
One opposition MK after the other wondered – in light of the impending recommendations – why they were still going through the motions of talking about 2019 when 2018 had just started and it seemed uncertain that the current Knesset would make it through the year. Continue reading