From AG asks top court to reject petition against Ben Gvir’s appointment as minister
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Otzma Yehudit MK Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara asks the High Court of Justice to reject a petition against the appointment of far-right Otzma Yehudit chief Itamar Ben Gvir as national security minister.
Baharav-Miara calls the petition premature as Ben Gvir has not yet taken office and it therefore addresses a theoretical.
Both Ben Gvir and incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu were ordered by the court on Monday to respond to the petition.
“There is no place for judicial intervention in light of the discretion granted to the prime minister in appointing ministers in his government,” Netanyahu’s lawyers write today in response, according to the Ynet news site.
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