JERUSALEM — Israeli police said Sunday they arrested senior officials from the country’s national telephone company as part of an investigation into alleged corruption offences. Israeli media said among those arrested were close associates of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is fighting for his political life after being accused of taking bribes from billionaire supporters. But Israeli daily Haaretz reported that police are investigating a possible relationship between the company, Bezeq, its controlling shareholder Shaul Elovitch and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I was witness to the despicable pattern in which this media outlet tried to suck up to Prime Minister Netanyahu,” said Dov Gil-Har, a former Walla journalist. In the second case, Netanyahu is accused of offering to give preferential treatment to a newspaper publisher in exchange for favourable coverage.

Source: National Post February 18, 2018 18:47 UTC