Israel's attorney general Avichai Mendelblit is expected to announce this week whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be charged in three corruption cases. The police have recommended charging him with bribery in all three.

Mendelblit is expected to charge Netanyahu, pending a hearing, in Case 1000, involving the receipt of extravagant gifts, and Case 4000, the Bezeq-Walla case, by week's end. He is still however deliberating whether to prosecute the prime minister in Case 2000, which involves negotiations he held with Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes.

The decision is due to arrive a week after Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid, Netanyahu's main rivals, forged an alliance aimed at bringing him down in the April 9 election. Initial polls show that, for the first time since 2006, a center-left party is threatening Netanyahu's rule.