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Sunday, December 15, 2024
Communications minister reiterates call for AG to be fired: ‘Moral and democratic duty’
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"
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi reiterates his call to fire Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, declaring that “an absolute majority of government ministers” have expressed support for such a move.
“I call on the coalition leaders to act decisively and put an end to this absurd situation: The weakest opposition Israel has ever known is being granted illegal and anti-democratic power in the form of an attorney general who is waging an open ideological war on the policies of the elected government,” he tweets, calling the removal of Baharav-Miara a “moral and democratic duty.”
Karhi also demands that the coalition advance a bill changing the makeup of the Judicial Selection Committee — effectively giving the government control over the selection of judges — to its second and third readings in the Knesset plenum.
