PM’s lawyer cites security concerns, preempting cross-examination in ongoing corruption trial, after Herzog rebuffed pardon request Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s testimony in his ongoing corruption trial was set to resume on Monday, after a more than two-month pause due to the Iran war, but was canceled at the last minute, according to Hebrew media reports. The reports cited security concerns submitted by Netanyahu’s lawyer Amit Hadad. No further details were immediately available. The testimony – again held at the Tel Aviv District Court building, rather than its equivalent in Jerusalem, out of security considerations – was expected to pick up from where the premier left off on February 24, his most recent cross-examination date. Netanyahu has testified 80 times so far, and is almost done being cross-examined on Case 4000, involving allegations that he authorized regulatory decisions that financially benefited telecommunications mogul Shaul Elovitch by hundreds of millions of shekels.…