“Since when do achievements legitimize corruption?”

They shouldn’t. Even the flawed and corrupt democracy of Brazil has convicted former president Liuz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) for corruption, and increased the sentence from 9.5 to 12 years on appeal. Among Lula’s achievements was repayment of the external debt to the World Bank and economic stability that Brazil hadn’t known for decades, but that didn’t protect him from being convicted of corruption on a massive scale.

The fish stinks from the head and it’s time we had a thorough cleaning of the government, as well.

There hasn't been any prove or even an indictment, only an obsessive media circus and the pitiful mantra's of the losing Left.

For more than 20 years Netanyahu was Mr. Israel.
Defending Israel in an hostile UN.
Getting Israel out of it's financial slump.
Navigating Israel passed 8 years of the most hostile US President ever.
Taking Obama's personal attacks & humaliations with pride.
Taking Israel out of it's isolation.
Building relations from Africa, South America, India, China & Arab countries.

Israel under Netanyahu has never been that strong, successful & relevant!

This PM has done only good for Israel and ''if he took some presents for himself....it is well deserved!

Yemini is an honest man whose analyses this reader often agrees with. But this sentence is seriously wrong: "In the previous election campaign, Netanyahu managed to fool the public by calling early elections for his own sake." He called for early elections, inter alia, because members of his own coalition had united with the opposition to create a Knesset majority for the utterly immoral and corrupt "Israel Hayom law." This was a law designed to benefit Yediot Aharonot by a formulation that would close down exactly one competitor. Although he works for the Yediot concern, Yemini has made an honest mistake, albeit a serious one, by forgetting that.

He prefers to outsmart his interlocutor rather than reach common concordance with him. He prefers to look smart rather than wise. Wisdom means nothingh to him.

But, unfortunately, he seems to represent the average Israeli. This is why Israel is doomed in my opinion.

expect fron Netanyahu to show the corrupt investigators and lawyers were they belong, no less and hopefully soon!

you LEFT PEOPLE , all you know very well is to criticize every good thing in ISRAEL . you are welcome to leave...

can run for office, only the mediocre would be in public service in politics. Great men often have great flaws. If the flaws are not overlooked or forgiven, the greatness of the man cannot help the nation. It is like throwing out a chicken dinner because there are bones. By the way, PM Netanyahu, it was great to see you on the Life, Liberty & Levin show on TV Fox News this evening. My brothers went to MIT but got electrical engineering degrees. I didn't know MIT had a business school.

come out one day and heads shall roll.
In the meantime it wouldn't hurt with elections, that'd show how appreciated & valued our King Bibi is! :-)

Bibi's achievements are real and incontrovertible. For example, the enormous growth of Israel's economy, under Bibi's leadership, is irrefutable. On the other hand the "corruption" is a ludicrous hoax.

After endless years of leftist Deep State "investigations", at a cost of tens of millions of shekels to Israeli taxpayers, what is the result? Zero.

There are no crooked multi million shekel payouts to Bibi. No luxurious chalets gifted to Bibi. All the "investigators" have to show are some wine, cigars and lots of vicious innuendo. Everyone gives their friends wine and cigars all the time. To paint such small gifts as evidence of "corruption" insults Israelis' intelligence.

The people are fighting back whether Bibi, Trump, Brexit, Italy the time is coming. The left is hopefully going to die a slow death and leave the moderate libertarians to find their own destiny. Korbyn/Clinton/Trudeau a group of left wing mainstream fascists who have no interest in anything about the people only their own agenda. People are waking up and looks like the new generation will counteract the SJW culture forced upon society.

Bibi's achievements are real, there are people who are conspiring against him, because of power struggle and because of hatred and jealousy. It is my sincere prayer for Bibi and my brethren that Hashem will promptly deal with the enemies of Israel. Israel will prevail against opposition. May Hashem bless Bibi, and Jerusalem and Israel. Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel. Amen and Amen.

Voters aren't fooled by the left. We know these allegations would go away if Bigi would announce he was destroying all the settlements. This investigation is by the leftist controlled police trying to overturn the results of Israel's election.

The problem is that Netanyahu thinks that he is Israel and therefore, any benefit to him (even expensive gifts or a box of money) is a benefit to Israel.

Israelis must accept Bibi's value. HE HAS DONE MORE FOR ISRAEL THEN OLMERT AND BARAK who were willing to sell Israel down the river.