Sunday’s cabinet meeting, during which a controversial vote on dismissing Attorney General Baharav-Miara was ostensibly set to take place, has been canceled.
The next cabinet meeting will now be held on August 4, the day after the Fast of the Ninth of Av.
According to several Hebrew media outlets, the cabinet meeting was canceled so as not to avoid tackling divisive issues during the days leading up to the Ninth of Av, in accordance with requests of religious cabinet ministers. The day commemorates the destruction of the Second Temple, which tradition holds was burned down as punishment for baseless hatred between Jews.
A ministerial committee recommended earlier this week that the cabinet fire Baharav-Miara due to “substantive and ongoing differences of opinion between the government and the attorney general, preventing effective cooperation.”
The vote enabled the cabinet to make a final decision at its next meeting.
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