TEHRAN, Nov 23_Senior officials from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party have reportedly been working behind the scenes to bring him down following his indictment on corruption charges.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_After three years of investigations, Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit charged Netanyahu with fraud, breach of trust and bribery in three different scandals on Thursday.
In the 63-page indictment, the Israeli premier was accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in luxury gifts from his billionaire friends and trading favors with Israeli media and telecommunication moguls in exchange for positive news coverage.
On Friday, Israel's Channel 12 TV reported that top Likud members have been convinced “the Netanyahu era is over” and are trying to unseat him as the party's head within the current 21-day period allotted for the parliament (Knesset) to agree on a prime minister.
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