Day: October 22, 2026

Iran’s claims that its forces on Thursday struck several oil tankers traveling in the Strait of Hormuz are false, said President Trump, who accused Tehran of inventing incidents to drive up oil p

A confidential dossier containing the sworn affidavits of 51 top Israeli intelligence and military figures accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with “harming the security of Israel” so severely it “borders on treason.” These and other statements in the dossier charge Netanyahu with deep corruption in connection with his handling of German submarine sales to Israel and Egypt.

The accusations by major players in the Israeli security establishment come as Netanyahu’s political fate—and even his personal freedom—hang on the outcome of next week’s highly contested election. The submarine affair has garnered immense attention in Israel but almost none in the Western media.

Netanyahu already faces trials on three earlier indictments, charging him with accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust in separate cases. A conviction on any of those charges also could send him to prison. But Netanhyahu, who has denied any wrongdoing, has managed over the past seven years to drag out those trials by citing his duties as prime minister to avoid appearing in court. To date, none of his trials has reached a verdict.

An official inquiry that resumes next month will focus on a new set of criminal allegations related to Netanyahu’s handling of Israel’s purchase of four submarines and other naval warships from the German firm Thyssenkrupp between 2009 and 2017. But the most damning accusations in the dossier claim that Netanyahu defrauded his own government—and possibly committed treason—by secretly approving Germany’s sale of advanced submarines to Egypt without informing his defense minister or other navy commanders — and then lying about it.

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