Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he would ask the Knesset or Parliament for immunity to avoid being brought to trial in three corruption cases.
"I intend to make a request to the speaker of the Knesset," Netanyahu said in a live address on Wednesday, adding that such a request "would be in line with the law... (and) with the goal of continuing to serve you, for the future of Israel", Efe news reported
The announcement came just hours before the deadline for requesting such immunity, the last resort remaining to Israel's longest-serving Prime Minister to dodge - or at least delay - trial on bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate cases brought against him by Israel's attorney general in November. (IANS)