Gantz slams Levin for ‘trolling Supreme Court justices about system of seniority’ amid Gaza war, rocket fire in north

Former war cabinet minister Benny Gantz reacts to Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s nomination of every current serving Supreme Court justice for president of the court, which he calls “a shameful show of disconnection by the justice minister and the prime minister.”

“I am on my way home from the north, after visiting the residents there who are under fire, some of them for almost a year. I turn on the radio and hear that while our communities are under fire, our soldiers are fighting and our hostages are dying in Hamas captivity, the justice minister is busy trolling the judges of the Supreme Court about the system of seniority,” he writes on X.

“Since the establishment of the state, it has been customary for the Supreme Court president to be appointed according to the seniority system,” he insists.

Levin and the two other coalition representatives on the committee oppose the appointment of liberal Justice Isaac Amit, who is next in line for the post under the system of seniority.