The Jerusalem District Court on Sunday agreed to cancel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled days of testimony in his criminal trial for this week, after Netanyahu, backed by the heads of IDF Military Intelligence and Mossad, appeared before the judges in a closed-door hearing to lay out the reasons the hearings must be put off.

The court decided that the two hearings scheduled this week for Netanyahu’s testimony will be canceled, but declined at this stage to cancel next week’s hearings — as Netanyahu also requested — citing a “lack of certainty” regarding “relevant developments.”

The judges stated that they would consider a new request to cancel next week’s hearings should one be submitted later.

Netanyahu’s lawyer Amit Hadad had submitted two requests on Friday to cancel the prime minister’s testimony for the next two weeks due to “diplomatic,........

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