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Israeli cabinet unanimously votes no confidence in attorney general, beginning formal process of her dismissal
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"
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet votes unanimously in favor of a no-confidence motion against Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, paving the way for her dismissal.
Writing to the cabinet ahead of Sunday’s cabinet meeting, Baharav-Miara stated that the motion was legally irrelevant and would have no bearing on the government’s efforts to remove her from office.
The no-confidence motion is not legally part of the impeachment process — which requires the convening of a five-member public committee responsible for appointing, and to a large extent, firing, the attorney general. But it marks the government’s formal adoption of the process intended to end in her dismissal.
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