A year ago, the judges presiding over Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s ongoing trial scoffed in court at the charges of bribery against Netanyahu in Case 4000, even snapping at the prosecutor that “the court recommended you drop the bribery charges.”

Since then, the prosecution has continued to fail to present even a hint of evidence in the case.

On Sunday, the prosecution once again was embarrassed by its inability to substantiate the “favorable coverage” theory when a former Case 4000 investigator—retired deputy police superintendent Yoram Naaman—took the witness stand.

Netanyahu’s defense attorney, Adv. Amit Hadad, confronted Naaman, arguing that despite serious claims about “using the Walla website as one’s own,” investigators failed to present Netanyahu with a single article to support the bribery allegation.

The judges were visibly unconvinced by Naaman’s responses. Presiding judge Rivka Friedman-Feldman asked, ““What is the point of these conversations if there isn’t even one article proving the claim? Judge Oded Shaham questioned why the key evidence had not been presented to Netanyahu during questioning.

Naaman was forced to concede, “I have no answer.”

The development marked a major setback for the prosecution, as a central investigator struggled to explain why the core evidence was never presented to the prime minister.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)