Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for a commission of inquiry to investigate the Pegasus affair galvanized the streets on Thursday night. Supporters of Netanyahu gathered at the Tel Aviv Habima Square to demand that a commission be established immediately as the appropriate response to recent reports that the Israeli police used the spyware on witnesses in Netanyahu's trial.
When Israel's Pegasus affair was first revealed a few weeks ago in the Calcalist financial newspaper, the initial reports did not relate to the Netanyahu trial. That came later. Now his supporters say that Netanyahu is being persecuted, claiming that the case against him was fabricated as a ploy to remove him and the right from power. They accuse legal and media elites of being behind the scandal.
