Israeli Prime Ministers’ Struggles With Corruption: A Timeline<br />The state prosecutor recommended in 2004 that Mr. Sharon be indicted on bribery charges,<br />but the attorney general dropped the case, saying the evidence did not come "remotely close" to enough for a conviction.<br />The police recommended prosecuting him on charges of fraud and breach of trust,<br />but the country’s attorney general, Elyakim Rubinstein, decided in April not to press charges, for lack of evidence.<br />In September, he officially resigned as prime minister, a week after the police recommended<br />that he be indicted on charges of bribery, breach of public trust, money laundering and fraudulent receipt of goods.<br />1997 An Israeli reporter alleged that Mr. Netanyahu, during his first term as prime minister, had inappropriately<br />interfered with the appointment of an attorney general in order to reach a political deal.<br />2011 Mr. Netanyahu was accused by the state comptroller, Micha Lindenstrauss, of having the state<br />and other entities pay his travel expenses and those of his wife and sons while in between terms as prime minister.<br />This is not the first time Mr. Netanyahu has struggled with corruption investigations — he is sometimes referred to as Mr. Teflon<br />for the trouble the police have had getting accusations to stick — nor is he the first of the country’s prime ministers to do so.
