Another stormy day unfolded Monday in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trial, during the testimony of former Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit. Netanyahu's defense attorney, Amit Hadad, focused on the approvals given to interrogate the prime minister in Case 2000 and on actions taken in Case 3000, which is not part of the indictment against Netanyahu.
Mandelblit claimed the decision to interrogate Netanyahu under caution in Case 2000 had crystallized earlier, but could not point to any documented approval before January 5, 2017. When Hadad presented him with a document that, according to the attorney, contradicted his earlier statements, Mandelblit replied: "That's what I remember, but it contradicts." Judge Moshe Bar-Am asked: "What you just said is correct, or what's written?" Mandelblit answered: "What I just said."
The hearing then turned to the text of the warning given to Netanyahu during his interrogation. Hadad argued that the warning did not reflect the suspicions relating to the conversations with Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes. When he asked, "It doesn't match, correct?" Mandelblit replied: "It doesn't match." Asked whether he had raised the issue at the time, he said: "Correct, I wasn't aware of it."
