The legal hairsplitting over the question of whether Yonatan Urich, the key aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who received money from Qatar, is or isn't a civil servant may be relevant to the question of whether the payment is defined as a bribe. Nevertheless, it interferes with the thorough public investigation that needs to happen into the deep moral and ethical rot that has spread through Netanyahu and those around him.

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