The Tuesday session of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial was canceled due to “extraordinary circumstances,” judges said on Monday.

Last week Netanyahu promised defiantly to knock down corruption allegations against him in his long-running trial, where he became the first sitting Israeli leader to take the stand as a criminal defendant.

The Times of Israel, citing Judge Rivka Friedman-Feldman, said that the cancellation came after Netanyahu’s team had made “closed-door arguments” in favor of delaying the session, at which Netanyahu was expected to testify for the third time in the ongoing corruption trial.