Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the State Attorney's Office's rejection of his petitions, in which Netanyahu claimed that investigators fabricated graft charges against him and therefore his criminal indictment should be dismissed.
"Instead of taking responsibility for threatening witnesses with extortion and threats, forging and concealing transcripts, criminal leaks, silencing witnesses, disregarding credentials and many other criminal acts committed and polluting the proceedings against the prime minister, the prosecution is dismantling all responsibility while distorting reality," said Netanyahu's office in a statement. "All of the State Attorney's legal tricks cannot hide the fact that there was no offense but an offense was invented specifically for Prime Minister Netanyahu."