Weizman to Resign as Israeli President
Israeli President Ezer Weizman will resign within six weeks, his top aide said Saturday, three days after the attorney general announced that Weizman had improperly accepted gifts while in office.
Weizman, 76, has said he will resign, citing ill health and the implications of an inquiry into the more than $300,000 in gifts that he took from a French millionaire friend from 1988 to 1993. The president says the money was a personal gift.
Atty. Gen. Elyakim Rubinstein said he was closing the investigation because the statute of limitations on the bribery charges had run out.
Rubinstein said, however, that “there was clear impropriety in receiving the money.”
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