Monday 06 / May / 2024
Occupied Jerusalem: Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a former Israeli defence minister and veteran politician who once served as his country's pointman with Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, died on Sunday.
He was 80. Ben-Eliezer had been in poor health for several years and retired from politics under a cloud in 2014.
He was charged last year with taking bribes, money laundering, fraud and tax offences related to allegations that he received payments from businessmen while serving in government.
The trial, which Ben-Eliezer did not attend because of his health problems, was under way when he died.
