Sarah Netanyahu on trial, October 7, 2018. (photo credit: JEREMY SHARON)
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Prime Minister’s wife Sara Netanyahu is standing trial in the Prepared Food Affairs on Sunday afternoon.
Three years after the opening of the police investigation, the trial will be opened at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court. In an exceptional move, the State Attorney’s Office requested that the case be heard by a panel of three judges due to its complexity and sensitivity, but the request has not yet been answered.
A hearing on the matter is expected to be held at the opening of the trial.
Ezra Seidoff, the former Prime Minister’s Office deputy director-general who is accused in the affair, will also stand trial on Sunday.
In the Prepared Food Affair, the attorney-general has alleged that from September 2010 until March 2013, Sara Netanyahu acted in coordination with Seidoff to present the false misrepresentation that the Prime Minister’s Residence did not employ a cook, even though it did during that time.
According to the allegations, the two made this misrepresentation to circumvent and exploit regulations that stated, “In a case where a cook is not employed in the official residence, it is permitted to order prepared food as needed.” The two hoped to obtain state funding both for the cook at the residence and for prepared food orders. In this way, the two allegedly obtained from the state NIS 359,000 in hundreds of prepared food orders.
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Charges against Netanyahu for these 15 instances were previously closed by Mandelblit as there was insufficient evidence to prove that Sara Netanyahu knew about Seidoff’s and the others’ actions.
The prosecution also indicted for the same offenses, while adding the offense of falsifying documents and with a total fraud amount of NIS 393,000.
Yonah Jeremy Bob contributed to this report
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