Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was abruptly summoned from his ongoing corruption trial to provide testimony in a separate case Monday afternoon after two of his aides were arrested amid mounting allegations of financial ties between Netanyahu’s office and Qatar,

As advisers are held and premier himself is summoned by police, opposition figures say his 'wave of spin' is meant to divert attention from other issues, call for him to be probed The post Netanyahu’s party: Arrest of PM’s aides in Qatargate probe is ‘coup d’état’ by AG,

I said to them – give me materials, show me something, and they had nothing to show, and I was astounded,” Netanyahu said.'Political witch hunt'Calling the investigation “political,” Netanyahu said, adding Urich and Feldstein's lives were “ruined” over nothing.