AG says interim government can appointment ministers without Knesset approval

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit issues a legal opinion saying the current interim government can appointment new ministers without the need for Knesset approval.

The opinion, which follows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s firing of New Right ministers Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked earlier today, comes as Israel finds itself again going to polls, after Knesset elections in April failed to produce a new government.

Citing “Basic Law: The Government,” Mandelblit says current MKs can be appointed as ministers without receiving approval from the Knesset.

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