🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu's court hearing on the Walla scandal has ended unexpectedly.

🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu has been summoned to testify in the Qatargate affair.

🇮🇱⚡- 5 hours after being announced as Ronen Bar's replacement as Shin Bet Chief, Eli Sharvit announces he will not take his position until the Qatargate scandal has concluded.

🇮🇱⚡- Yair Lapid, Knesset Opposition Leader, calls Netanyahu's decision to appoint Sharvit as 'hasty, panicked and irresponsible'.

The decision was also criticized by several right-faction Likud members, as Sharvit opposed Levin's judicial reforms a few years ago.

Lapid says Netanyahu attempted to quickly replace Bar is an attempt to suppress Qatargate, saying 'this is a blatant attempt by Netanyahu to distract us, his attempt will not succeed'.

🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Police Unit Lahav 433 informed the Prime Minister's Office that he had been summoned for open testimony.

Lahav 433 earlier detained Urich and Feldstein, two close Netanyahu associates.

🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Netanyahu is now reconsidering Eli Sharvit's appointment as Shin Bet Chief after he announced he won't take Office until the end of Qatargate.

🇮🇱⚡- Just before leaving the Walla scandal court hearing, the judges asked the audience to leave the courtroom for a closed-door hearing.

The closed-door hearing lasted just 10 minutes before court was dismissed and Netanyahu abruptly left for the Qatargate testimony.

🇮🇱⚡- "Overall, a sane country," - Yaron Avraham, Israeli Channel 12's journalist, reflecting on the current situation within Israel's government.

🇮🇱⚡- Zvika Klein, Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post, an Israeli outlet that is overly pro-Likud, is being questioned by Lahav 433 over Qatargate.

🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu's defense attorney Haddad was spotted outside Lahav 433.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Russia's Khmeimim Air Base, Latakia, Syria, intercepts two drones over its airspace.

🇮🇱⚡- The moment Netanyahu's convoy left Tel Aviv District Court.

🇮🇱⚡- "The thuggish arrest of Yonatan Urich is a new low in the political hunt to overthrow a right-wing Prime Minister and to prevent the dismissal of the failed Shin Bet Chief," - Likud.

🇮🇱⚡- "After the fabricated investigations initiated by the Attorney General's Office and the Shin Bet Chief into the falsification of minutes in the Prime Minister's Office and the blackmailing of an officer in the Prime Minister's Military Secretariat blew up in their faces [Walla Scandal], they invented another new fabricated affair about a Qatar, which will also explode very quickly," - Likud.

🇮🇱⚡- "The attempt to terrorize Yonatan Urich in order to extract from him false testimony against the Prime Minister through blackmail with threats and a false arrest is another criminal act of a frightened legal clique," - Likud.

🇮🇱⚡- "This is not an investigation. This is not law enforcement. This is an attempted assassination of democracy and an attempt to replace the will of the people with the rule of bureaucrats," - Likud.

🇮🇱⚡- "The goal of Shin Bet and the Attorney General's Office is to carry out a coup," - Likud.

🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Attorney Gali Baharav-Miara tells i24 that she will testify openly in light of the police's request!

Baharav-Miara is considered a very pro-Likud, and right-wing Attorney General, whose candidacy was supported by Gideon Sa'ar and Naftali Bennet in 2021.

🇫🇷⚡- Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to four years in prison, with two years suspended, and fined €100,000.

🇮🇱⚡- "Is the Netanyahu era over?" - News of Israel, Israeli outlet.

🇮🇱⚡- "Eli Sharvit will not be appointed Head of the Shin Bet," - Yinon.