Bye-Bye, Avichai

Both Aryeh Deri (Shas) and Yaakov Litzman (UTJ) signed plea-bargain agreements and resigned from the Knesset rather than face a last-minute Mandelblit indictment and see their names dragged through the mud for the foreseeable future, no matter whether they are proven innocent or found guilty.

The one holdout on Mandelblit’s plea-bargain list, at press time, was Binyamin Netanyahu.

Many reasons have been offered to explain why Bibi has still not signed on the dotted line.

Two make the most sense to me. Under pressure from state prosecutors, Mandelblit reportedly insisted Netanyahu sign a clause admitting to “moral turpitude.”