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Sunday, September 8, 2024
After High Court order on judicial selection panel, Gantz says Levin must either comply or resign
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Following the High Court of Justice’s ruling ordering Yariv Levin to convene the Judicial Selection Committee and elect a new president for the Supreme Court, former war cabinet minister Benny Gantz demands that the justice minister either comply or resign.
“The responsibility for not dragging the State of Israel into a constitutional crisis in general, and during times of war in particular, rests with the prime minister and he must make sure that the law is respected and the High Court ruling is followed,” states the opposition National Unity party leader.
“If [Levin] believes this is the time for wars over the seniority system instead of against Hamas, it indicates that he has poor priorities and that he and the prime minister have learned nothing from the low place we reached on the eve of the war,” he adds — calling on Levin to follow the court’s ruling or “put down the keys and resign.”
