Israel’s leaders and corruption allegations


Feb 2019: Former energy minister Gonen Segev sentenced to 11 years in prison for spying for Iran. Segev
has already served three years in prison for smuggling ecstasy tablets

Mar 2019: Israel’s Attorney General announces that he intends to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
in three criminal cases, pending hearing. Charges include both bribery and breach of trust and come ahead of Israeli elections scheduled for April 9

2017: Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is released on parole after serving 16 months of 27-month sentence for receiving bribes in “largest corruption scandal in Israel”

2011: Former President Moshe Katsav (left) sentenced to seven years in prison for rape and sexual harassment. Katsav serves five years and is released in 2016

2004: Corruption case against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (right) dropped because of a lack of evidence.
Sharon was suspected of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in 1990s

2003: Police probe into allegations of illegal campaign financing, bribery and money laundering during
former Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s (above) 1999 election campaign dropped due to lack of evidence

2000: President Ezer Weizman resigns following report that he had acted improperly in accepting more than $300,000 in undeclared cash from 1985 to 1993. Weizman escapes prosecution because statute of limitations has elapsed


Sources: OCCRP, Jerusalem Post, Jewish News 
Pictures: Associated Press
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