New Arrests in Israel’s Submarine Scandal, and New Questions on Netanyahu<br />Also arrested was a former deputy head of Israel’s National Security Council; Mr. Netanyahu appointed him to lead the council,<br />but he did not take the post because of an investigation into another matter.<br />But with his personal lawyer, the man he appointed as national security adviser, and now his former chief of staff among the expanding parade of suspects, analysts and critics assert<br />that if Mr. Netanyahu did not know what was going on, he should have.<br />David Sharan, who was Mr. Netanyahu’s chief of staff from late 2014 to 2016, was arrested on Sunday in connection<br />with the case, along with a former Navy chief and a former commander of the elite naval commandos.<br />In yet another complication for Mr. Netanyahu, a court order resulting from a reporter’s petition forced him this week to reveal the frequency<br />and times of his telephone conversations with the former editor of Israel Hayom and its backer, the American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.<br />4, 2017<br />JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not a suspect in the so-called submarine affair, one of the corruption scandals rocking Israel.
