The second involves a reported back-room deal between Netanyahu and his political rival Arnon Mozes, the publisher of Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot. Netanyahu allegedly promised to impose restrictions on a competitor publication in exchange for positive coverage from Mozes.

But wait, there’s more: Netanyahu is currently implicated in three other corruption scandals.

One involves an aide to Netanyahu. The aide allegedly offered to bribe a judge with the promise of a nomination as attorney general. The goal, if the accusation is true, was to convince the judge to quash a criminal case involving Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, and her possible misuse of public funds.

Another case involves the period when Netanyahu managed the communications ministry. Allegedly, he or his aides traded regulatory approvals for positive coverage on Walla, a news website owned by Israel’s largest telecommunications company and Netanyahu’s personal friend, Shaul Elovitch.

A final case involves allegations, levied against Netanyahu associates, of conflicts of interest and impropriety in the Israeli government's purchase of German submarines worth up to $2.5 billion.

Netanyahu has dismissed all claims that he has broken the law.

Netanyahu has tangled with Israeli police before, and won. Netanyahu is sometimes referred to as Mr. Teflon because law enforcement has failed to make accusations against him stick. He is also not the first Israeli prime minister to be accused of corruption. His predecessor, Ehud Olmert, was convicted, and served 16 months in jail for corruption, including a double-billing scheme in which he defrauded the government and private charities from more than $90,000. This New York Times timeline of Israeli Prime Ministers’ struggles with corruption paints a picture of the problem.

How big of a deal is this, really? Netanyahu has become a divisive figure at the same time as polarization in Israeli society has increased, which some critics have blamed on Netanyahu and his politics. Enter into that division a large-scale corruption-scandal, with potentially far-reaching political implications. Israeli newspaper Haaretz headlined its coverage of one of the cases, “If True, This Is the Worst Case of Government Corruption in Israel's History.”

Meanwhile, the Palestinian peace process has stalled while the humanitarian situation in Gaza has worsened to the point of disaster. There has been renewed violence in the Palestinian territories, where the U.S. has also made consequential interventions. President Trump decided to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to cut U.S. funding to the United Nations Relief Works Agency, which provides humanitarian services to Palestinians.

And amid the Syrian civil war, which has reached its most international point, with five global powers fighting for control and for the right to influence the country’s reconstruction, a direct conflict between Israel and Iran is becoming more likely.