Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his team of lawyers were surprised this week when they learned that hidden among the evidence against Netanyahu was a surprise witness: none other than Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid. According to the police, Netanyahu tried to persuade Lapid, who was the minister of finance in his previous government, to advance a law that would have granted Israeli billionaire Arnon Milchan tax benefits estimated to be worth tens of millions of shekels.
The Israeli Police recommended that Netanyahu be indicted for two separate cases of bribery. The publication about Lapid’s involvement in the case made it all the more dramatic. Not only is Netanyahu facing the fight of his life. It now looks like the person who could bring him down is his old finance minister, a man long determined to defeat his old boss and succeed him as prime minister.
