The High Court of Justice takes up several petitions against the election of Michael Rabello, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal lawyer, as state comptroller last week, and says a hearing must be held no later than June 23.
The court orders the respondents, including Rabello himself, the Knesset, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, Netanyahu, and the Likud party, to file their responses to the petitions by June 21.
Rabello, who was elected in highly controversial circumstances, is due to take up his new post on July 1.
Rabello’s election last Wednesday was marred by Likud MKs videoing and photographing themselves voting for Rabello, reportedly on orders from senior Likud officials. Petitioners allege that such actions violated Basic Law: The State Comptroller, which stipulates explicitly that the vote must be held as a secret ballot.
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