India, June 29 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got a huge relief on Sunday as the Jerusalem District Court cancelled Monday's hearing into his long-running corruption trial.

The postponement came as the court accepted a request the Israeli leader made, citing classified diplomatic and security grounds.

According to a report by Reuters, the ruling said that new reasons provided by Netanyahu, the head of Israel's spy agency Mossad and the military intelligence chief justified cancelling the hearings.

This comes amid US President Donald Trump's call for the cancellation of the trial, which he termed as a 'witch hunt'. It was unclear whether Trump's social media post influenced the court's decision.

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