Avichal Mandelblit, attorney general of Israel, announced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be indicted in all three ongoing corruption cases against him. The announcement marks the first time in Israeli history that a sitting prime minister has been informed that he will face criminal charges.

Netanyahu is accused of trading favorable government treatment of the Bezeq in exchange for positive coverage on the Walla news site, both owned by Shaula Elovitch, who, along with the prime minister, will be charged with bribery.

The other two cases include an attempted deal between Yediot Achronot newspaper publisher Arnon Mozes and Netanyahu to decrease circulation of rival Israel Hayom in exchange for more positive coverage. Mozes is expected to be charged with bribery. In the second case, Netanyahu is accused of receiving gifts from Hollywood film producer Arnon Milchan and Australian businessman James Packer that included gifts worth of tens of thousands of dollars. Netanyahu acted on the Israeli-born producer’s behalf in the telecommunications realm.

Netanyahu has denied all allegations against him.

In a related matter, internationally recognized constitutional attorney and former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz came to the defense of the prime minister. In an open letter to the attorney general, published Feb. 27 in the Israeli daily Haaretz, Dershowitz argued that “To bring down a duly elected prime minister on the basis of an expansive and unprecedented application of a broad and expandable criminal statute endangers democracy.”