From the Liveblog of
Monday, November 4, 2024
After PM urged ‘solution’ to ‘combative’ AG, Likud minister calls for her to be fired
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"
Addressing lawmakers from the Knesset plenum, Regional Cooperation Minister David Amsalem calls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire the attorney general.
There is currently “an elitist group” holding the “entire country” in a “stranglehold,” Amsalem declares, claiming that Attorney General Gali Baharav-Mirara and Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon’s “entire job is to overthrow the government.”
“I call on the prime minister to immediately fire the attorney general and Gil Limon. They commit breach of trust on a daily basis,” he states. “You turned the country, you turned the government into a bunch of criminals, and you ‘people of justice and light’ harm the government of the State of Israel.”
Earlier today, members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government railed against Baharav-Miara’s opposition to government policies. During the cabinet discussion, Netanyahu described her conduct as “combative” and reportedly asked Justice Minister Yariv Levin to prepare a “solution” to the issue.
In response, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said that the prime minister’s comments constituted “evidence that the government is returning to the [judicial overhaul] with all its might” and promised to “work to prevent her dismissal legally, publicly and in every way.”
Addressing reporters ahead of his National Unity party’s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, Benny Gantz said that he had a “proposal for the prime minister who is looking for a ‘solution’ to the attorney general who is disturbing him and the government ministers: Don’t introduce discriminatory legislation and don’t promote a coup d’état and the attorney general won’t bother you.”
