Israel’s Netanyahu slams Qatargate probe as ‘political witch hunt’

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu testified Monday in a probe involving alleged payments from Qatar to some of his aides, an investigation he denounced as politically motivated.

Israeli police arrested the prime minister’s two long-serving aides, Yonatan Urich and Eli Feldstein earlier on Monday, for their alleged involvement in the case local media have dubbed “Qatargate”.

The arrests ratchet up political tensions in the country, where the government is trying to fire both the…