Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday issued an unusual statement against the conduct of the permits committee, which refuses to hold a second hearing on his request to use his colleagues to finance his legal expenses if he does not deliver a financial statement to the committee by Friday.
"The prime minister has the right to defend himself against an indictment aimed at bringing down a prime minister and replacing a government by a non-democratic process," Netanyahu said in a statement.
"The permits committee is preventing the prime minister from receiving assistance in financing his legal defense, as opposed to other public figures who received assistance to finance their defense," the statement said. Any information given to the committee was immediately leaked in a tendentious and offensive manner, while seriously damaging the right to privacy that also stands for the prime minister. "
"Without this aid, the prime minister has no ability to defend himself against the huge resources of hundreds of millions of shekels that the state invests in submitting a baseless and unprecedented indictment against him."