During the cross-examination of former Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, Mandelblit confirmed that he did not grant permission to investigate Netanyahu in Case 3000 and did not approve recruiting David Shimron as a state witness. According to Channel 14, he admitted that the wording of the caution in Case 2000 did not match the suspicions. Attorney Amit Hadad presented questions put to Netanyahu in January 2017 concerning Arnon Milchan, and argued that this was an investigation into a conflict of interest that was not included in the caution.
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Channel 14
Channel 14 reports that Mandelblit confirmed he did not grant permission to investigate Netanyahu in Case 3000 or to recruit David Shimron as a state witness against him, and admitted that the wording of the caution in Case 2000 did not match the suspicions.
Maariv
Maariv reports that the judges accepted the prosecution's objection to questions about investigative flaws, and that Hadad insisted on continuing this line of questioning.
The Seventh Eye
The Seventh Eye reports that the prosecution claimed attorney Amit Hadad misled a senior investigator while testifying in the bribery trial, and stated that it would pass classified information to the judges.