Attorney Hadad: 'There is no trial that ran 5 days a week, only the Eichmann trial'
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared this morning (Monday) for a hearing regarding the court's request to expedite the hearing of defense witnesses in the thousand cases, by holding hearings five days a week. Archive |…
Assessment
The defense in Netanyahu's trial is pushing back against a judicial push to speed up hearings, invoking a comparison to the Eichmann trial as a rhetorical ceiling on how fast a case can move. The core tension is between the court's desire to finish the defense phase before a planned retirement and the defense's insistence on controlling the timeline. The next signal to watch is whether the court imposes a schedule over the defense's objection or compromises on the pace.