Israel foreign minister faces charges

JERUSALEM - Israeli police said on Monday they had recommended charging Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman with violating public trust in a case involving an alleged information leak.

Lieberman heads a far-right party that forms the second largest faction in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coalition.

"Police have recommended charging Lieberman for violation of trust," regarding the alleged transfer of information to him by another government official, Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, said.

Charges have also been recommended against a former Israeli ambassador to Belarus regarding the same case, Rosenfeld said.

It would be up to Israel's attorney-general, Yehuda Weinstein, to decide as to whether to indict Lieberman, against whom a previous police recommendation for charges in a separate incident, still stands.

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