Overview
- Netanyahu’s lawyer asked the Jerusalem District Court on Friday to postpone his testimony for at least two weeks, citing “classified security and diplomatic reasons” tied to recent events in the region.
- The court received a sealed envelope detailing those reasons and will decide after prosecutors submit their response.
- Judicial hearings were slated to resume Sunday after Israel lifted a state of emergency under a U.S.–Iran ceasefire, which had earlier closed most courts along with schools and workplaces.
- Israeli strikes in Lebanon have raised doubts over the ceasefire’s scope, and U.S. and Iranian delegations plan talks in Islamabad to try to steady the truce.
- Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said a region-wide ceasefire would “hasten” Netanyahu’s jailing, while U.S. President Donald Trump has urged Israel’s president to consider a pardon, underscoring the trial’s international stakes.