The High Court of Justice convenes to hear petitions demanding judges order the prime minister to dismiss National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
The public is barred from the court, but proceedings are being streamed live, amid fears that permitting public attendance will lead to disorder and disrupt the proceedings.
Right-wing Israelis continue to demonstrate outside the building against the minister’s potential dismissal, waving signs decrying the High Court as a “judicial dictatorship.”
Justice Isaac Amit, the High Court’s president, is chairing a nine-judge panel to hear the four petitions, all of which demand Ben Gvir’s dismissal on the basis that he has consistently and unlawfully interfered in police decision making, particularly when it comes to protests and investigations, eroding the force’s independence.
At the hearing’s outset, Amit orders Deputy Minister Almog Cohen, from Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party, be removed from the courtroom after he derides the judge as “corrupt” and demands he recuse himself from the case.
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