JAKARTA - The Israeli police said on Wednesday that a 70-year-old anti-government activist was being investigated on suspicion of planning the assassination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The suspect is accused of having expressed his intention to kill PM Netanyahu and asked for help from other activists for weapons and gathering information about the prime minister's security arrangements, police said.
The National Unit for Serious and International Crime Investigations and internal security agency Shin Bet have submitted their evidence to the Attorney General's office pending possible official prosecution.
Israel's Haaretz newspaper quoted a source familiar with the case as saying the woman had recently fallen ill and told people she was planning to "take Netanyahu with her".
Haaretz said the woman, who came from Tel Aviv and was not identified, was suspected of targeting PM Netanyahu with an explosive device or rocket-propelled grenade.
Several people who heard his statement contacted the police, prompting the start of the investigation. He was arrested about six weeks ago and has been released under house arrest.
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Previously, two Israeli prime ministers suffered different fates as a result of attacks directed at them.
In 1995, then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was killed by a far-right extremist who opposed his peace efforts with Palestine.
In 1957, Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, was almost hit by a grenade attack by a man with a mental disorder.
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