Benjamin Netanyahu at trial: 8 years I've been dragged over your nonsense! 

On his eighth day of testifying at trial, and suffering health-wise according to his own testimony, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has begun to visibly lose patience with the whole affair.

At one point, he yelled at the prosecution that "I've been dragged into this hell for eight years for your nonsense. Are you not ashamed? They talk about it all over the world, including senior officials in Washington."

He also made a statement to the court, noting how non-stop - and what he called one-sided - media coverage was poisoning the trial:

"I request to speak in court.

"Throughout the investigations, over 550 articles were published on channels 11, 12, and 13. Every two days, there was a different leak, with biased and false main headlines about me, some of which dealt with the great advantages I received from Walla for the significant benefits I provided to Alovich. Based on this, an understanding was created on which these accusations were based.

"The central claim in the main case is that I received irregular coverage from the Walla site in exchange for benefits that we know they did not receive. When such false claims are made, and you go through the articles on Walla, people ask: "What are they talking about? What are they talking about?!"

"I understand the time pressure, everyone is under the same time constraints, but it is my duty and my parliament's duty to understand what this is about. How will you know if it's positive or negative or what is behind it? For example, I would not have known this if I were in your place."

The testimony ended abruptly when the Prime Minister had to go to the Knesset to vote against a no confidence vote against his coalition, a request the court granted to him.