Netanyahu rallies supporters for Pegasus protests
Supporters of opposition head Benjamin Netanyahu rallied last night in Tel Aviv, claiming that the Pegasus affair is part of a conspiracy against their leader.
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.
A few former ministers and current Knesset members showed up in Habima Square, but despite Netanyahu’s promise that there would be a surprise in a video he released a day earlier to encourage his supporters to attend, the man at the epicenter of the event was nowhere to be seen, aside from in another video.
Where was Netanyahu?
