The proximate cause of his offensive was the JerusalemDistrict Planning and Building Board's decision to approve the future construction of 1, 600 housing units in northern Jerusalem.
Also this week, the JerusalemDistrict Attorney's office announced that four Israeli Arabs have been indicted for the attempted murder of an American Hebrew University student last month.
On Sunday he was making a brief appearance before a panel of three judges at the JerusalemDistrict Court for a procedural hearing to enter his plea and set a future court date.
In judgments in Jerusalem's district court, where Mr Solberg sits, a policeman was controversially acquitted of the manslaughter of an unarmed Palestinian.
In contrast, Jewish Israelis are moving unimpeded into homes they claim to own in the middle of Sheikh Jarrah, an all-Palestinian district of East Jerusalem.
Shrugging off blunt criticism on this score from Mrs Clinton, Mr Netanyahu earlier this year approved a Jewish building project in the heart of a Palestinian district close to Jerusalem's old city.